It certainly wasn't based on modern libertarian principles, or there would not have been much of a government in the first place.
It certainly pays lip service to freedom, but pre-dates the modern libertarian obsession with contract and property law as supreme above all others.
> libertarian obsession with contract and property law as supreme above all others
Contracts are always superceded by government laws under libertarianism.
If you want a book written by another actual libertarian, "Free to Choose" by Milton Friedman is a good start.
The neato thing about libertarianism is it doesn't have to be perfect in order to work. Since nothing about human societies can be perfect, this is fine feature. The more libertarian a country is, the better it runs.
Largely because when given the freedom to contract with whomever they want for garbage disposal, a lot of people just didn't.
My pleasure. The United States was founded on libertarian principles (excluding allowing slavery to continue, this was fixed in 1865).
The result was the rise if poor people to the most successful nation in the world, and the greatest rise in the wealth of those poor people.
This did not happen in, say, South America, that was discovered and colonized at the same time. The Antebellum South also did not prosper under slavery and was crushed by the free economy of the North.
Other countries which embraced libertarian principles also experience a surge in their economies, like the German Miracle after WW2, same for Japan.