Natural Law Party (United States)

Natural Law Party
Abbreviation	NLP
Chairperson	Doug Dern
Founded	April 22, 1992; 32 years ago (1992-04-22)
Dissolved	April 30, 2004 (2004-04-30) (as national party)
Headquarters	Hartland, MI
Ideology	Transcendental Meditation Civil libertarianism Environmentalism
Colors
Michigan House of Representatives	0 / 110
Michigan Senate	0 / 38
Statewide Executive Offices	0 / 4
U.S. House of Representatives	0 / 14
U.S. Senate	0 / 2
Website
natural-law.org
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The Natural Law Party (NLP) is a political party in Michigan. It was a national political party in the United States affiliated with the international Natural Law Party. It was founded in 1992. Beginning in 2004, many of its state chapters dissolved. The party's Michigan chapter is still active as of 2024.

The party proposed that political problems could be solved through alignment with the unified field of all the laws of nature through the use of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs. Leading members of the party were associated with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement.

The national version of the Natural Law Party ran John Hagelin as its presidential candidate in 1992, 1996 and 2000, and ran Ralph Nader in 2008. The party also ran congressional and local candidates. It attempted to merge with the Reform Party in 2000. Several state affiliates have kept their ballot positions and have allied with other small parties.