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	Liberty (freedom) - MSN Encarta
		Liberty is defined in such codes as the right of individuals to act without restraint as long as their actions do not interfere with the equivalent rights of others; acts that do violate the rights of others are rejected as license.
		With respect to individual liberty in the modern era, the problem has been one of preserving and extending civil rights, such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press (see Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; Press, Freedom of the; Speech, Freedom of).
		In these countries civil liberties were destroyed, the rights of the individual were completely subordinated to the requirements of the government, and those who did not agree with these policies were terrorized into submission.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566271/Liberty_(freedom).html (1162 words)

	Liberty at AllExperts
		Liberty is generally considered a concept of political philosophy and identifies the condition in which an individual has immunity from the arbitrary exercise of authority.
		Political philosophies rooted in individualism and socialism often conceive of liberty differently; individualist and liberal conceptions of liberty relate to the freedom of the individual from outside compulsion; a socialist perspective, for example, equates liberty with equality, claiming that liberty without equality amounts to the domination of the most powerful.
		The conception of law as a relationship between individuals, rather than families, came to the fore, and with it the increasing focus on individual liberty as a fundamental reality, given by "Nature and," which, in the ideal state, would be as expansive as possible.
	en.allexperts.com /e/l/li/liberty.htm (2208 words)

	Liberty and Individual Responsibility \| The Foundation for Economic Education: The Freeman, Ideas on Liberty
		When liberties are constrained only by the broad limits imposed by the role of private property, then a system of social communication and cooperation is established within which the liberty of each individual is compatible with the liberty of all.
		A reduction in the scope of individual liberty, with detailed directives and regulations replacing general rules of social conduct, is the certain consequence of either the inability or the unwillingness to rely on private property and voluntary exchange to order economic activity.
		Liberty is possible only when adherence to general rules of conduct makes the regimentation of detailed directives and restrictions unnecessary for the maintenance of social order.
	www.fee.org /publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=2124 (5627 words)

	The Reversal:Liberty into Servitude (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Liberty is one of the words used often by those who have tried to describe our way of life.
		Individual liberty or rights belong in the configuration of the general welfare, not in the welfare of a part, a configuration to which all governments - Federal, state, and local were supposed also to belong.
		The constitutional prohibition against bills of attainder is protection of the liberty of the individual against a majority of the legislature.
	www.libertyhaven.com /theoreticalorphilosophicalissues/history/reversallib.html (2640 words)

	CITES BY TOPIC: liberty
		Village of Williamette, 358 Ill. 311, 193 N.E. Liberty on its positive side, denotes the fullness of individual existence; on its negative side it denotes the necessary restraint on all, which is needed to promote the greatest possible amount of liberty for each.
		"the liberty of a member of society, being a man's natural liberty, so far restrained by human laws (and no further) as is necessary and expedient for the general advantage of the public.
		Personal liberty consists in the power of locomotion, of changing situation, of removing one's person to whatever place one's inclination may direct, without imprisonment or restraint unless by due course of law.
	famguardian.org /TaxFreedom/CitesByTopic/liberty.htm (1748 words)

	Positive and Negative Liberty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		The true interests of the individual are to be identified with the interests of this whole, and individuals can and should be coerced into fulfilling these interests, for they would not resist coercion if they were as rational and wise as their coercers.
		Positive liberty consists, they say, in exactly this growth of the individual: the free individual is one that develops, determines and changes her own desires and interests autonomously and from within.
		Although not coercing individuals into specific patterns of behavior, a state interested in promoting autonomy in Christman's sense might still be allowed considerable space for intervention of an informative and educational nature, perhaps subsidizing some activities (in order to encourage a plurality of genuine options) and financing this through taxation.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/liberty-positive-negative (6624 words)

	Individualism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Individualism is a term used to describe a moral, political, or social outlook, that stresses human independence and the importance of individual self-reliance and liberty.
		Individualism is a mature and calm feeling, which disposes each member of the community to sever himself from the mass of his fellows and to draw apart with his family and his friends, so that after he has thus formed a little circle of his own, he willingly leaves society at large to itself.
		Individualism is often contrasted with either totalitarianism or collectivism, but in fact there is a spectrum of behaviours ranging at the societal level from highly individualistic societies (e.g.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Individualism (1901 words)

	Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality by Elizabeth Price Foley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		And it assumes that judges are somehow upsetting the delicate balance of powers by demanding evidence of the necessity of legislative restrictions on individual liberty.
		America started with a concept of residual individual sovereignty, designed to respect the autonomy and equality of citizens, and has ended with a concept of limited liberty, presumptively unavailable and parsed out reluctantly by an all-powerful sovereign.
		America started with a concept of federalism, designed to better protect individual liberty, and has ended with a concept of nationalism, exercised vigorously to stifle controversial liberties recognized by the state.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig7/foley1.html (744 words)

	John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
		Thirdly, from this liberty of each individual, follows the liberty, within the same limits, of combination among individuals; freedom to unite, for any purpose not involving harm to others: the persons combining being supposed to be of full age, and not forced or deceived.
		And the world, to each individual, means the part of it with which he comes in contact; his party, his sect, his church, his class of society: the man may be called, by comparison, almost liberal and large-minded to whom it means anything so comprehensive as his own country or his own age.
		Whoever thinks that individuality of desires and impulses should not be encouraged to unfold itself, must maintain that society has no need of strong natures — is not the better for containing many persons who have much character — and that a high general average of energy is not desirable.
	www.constitution.org /jsm/liberty.htm (15542 words)

	Individual Liberty and Civil Society
		Each individual's life revolved around and was defined by his relationship to — and standing within — the political order.
		Me individual was liberated from political subordination, and he attached himself to an expanding web of voluntary relationships of diverse and personal interest.
		But the society of free individuals is not a society of unconnected, isolated individuals — "atomistic man," as the critics of liberty sometime refer to him.
	www.fff.org /freedom/0293b.asp (913 words)

	SparkNotes: On Liberty: Chapter 1, Introduction
		Furthermore, on the occasions when individuals do question the imposition of public opinion on social standards, they are usually questioning what things society should like or dislike, not the more general question of whether society's preferences should be imposed on others.
		Mill states that the argument that a certain law or public opinion might be for an individual's own good or welfare does not suffice to justify that law or public opinion as a coercive force; coercion by the many toward the individual is only acceptable when an individual poses a threat to others.
		Individuals can even be compelled to do good for other people, such as to save someone's life, because to do otherwise would be to cause evil to another person.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/onliberty/section1.html (1509 words)

	DKT Liberty Project
		Thomas Jefferson warned, "the natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." Mindful of this trend, the DKT Liberty Project was founded in 1997 to promote individual liberty against encroachment by all levels of government.
		The Project has been particularly involved in defending the right to privacy, one of the most profound individual liberties and a critical aspect of every American's right (and responsibility) to function as an autonomous and independent individual.
		The Liberty Project is committed to protecting privacy, guarding against government overreaching, and protecting the freedom of all citizens to engage in expression without government interference.
	www.libertyproject.org (188 words)

	The Principle of Liberty Chapter 7 - PERSON AND PROPERTY: Mind, Body and Property, Extending the Protection of Law, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Principle of Liberty is fully and accurately reflected, and liberty is maximized, when the citizen is fully protected from personal harm or injury or intrusion, theft or deprivation of property.
		No persons either individually or through Government, should impose their will, their way of life, their judgements or their brand of wisdom on the private life of others no matter how correct they might think their own way of life to be and how wrong they think that of others.
		The Principle of Liberty would require legislation to remain in the forefront in offering protection to the Animal Kingdom, reflected for example in stronger protection from cruelty, banning laboratory testing on animals, and the rapid phasing-out of "factory" farming so that animals are kept in conditions as closely resembling the natural as possible.
	www.libertyandlaw.org /liberty07.html (3385 words)

	Saving Liberty
		Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
		Individual citizens should have, and will have, direct input in the education of their children, as well as the freedom to choose a school in line with their needs.
		America is great because we have chosen to follow the lead of visionary individuals who have through their own desire and capacity developed products, services, and systems that have allowed us to operate at levels never seen before in history, not because of judicial legislation and government oversight.
	savingliberty.blogspot.com (5157 words)

	The Blessings Of Individual Liberty - liberty.li
		Most of my thoughts on Liberty have been political in nature, and granted that is a key factor in all the considerations of Liberty however, good politics is not the essence of Liberty, it is the results of Liberty.
		The personal benefits of Individual Liberty must be explained, the population must be educated in just how Liberty can set them free, improve their lives and the lives of their families and indeed make them more secure.
		The Liberty that the People have grown accustom to is almost entirely dependent upon the governments view, and it is colored by the policies of this government, so such an perception must be swept away by Truth.
	en.liberty.li /forum/showthread.php?t=1951 (842 words)

	Essay on Liberty
		In the United States of America, individual Liberty is the dream, and it is the promise.
		The first duty that Liberty imposes on each individual who wishes to be free is that the individual must protect and defend his or her own freedom from every other person.
		Liberty is found in refining the individual’s natural state of freedom, in tempering and honing it with self-discipline, and polishing it with an abundance of respect for the equality and Rights of all others.
	www.rogeriprice.com /Essay_on_Liberty.html (823 words)

	Liberty and Justice for Some
		We shall later argue that “the like liberty principle,” embraced in the abstract by libertarians, proves in practice to be both the undoing of libertarianism and the foundation of liberal politics..
		Since, in A. Myrick Freeman's words, "each individual is the best judge of how well-off he or she is in a given situation," (2) there is no agency (government or otherwise) entitled to curtail an individual's liberty to pursue his own welfare, provided that pursuit does not interfere with the equivalent liberty of others.
		For it may be the case that "life, liberty and property," can be secured only if society is "well-ordered," and "civic friendship" obtains; that is, when the critical mass of citizens recognize their common stake in a "shared fate," when, in a word, they have a well-founded loyalty to their contract-state.
	gadfly.igc.org /papers/liberty.htm (8678 words)

	Individual Liberty: Economic Rent
		Nay, the increase in prosperity may accelerate this decline; for under liberty increased prosperity means also well-distributed prosperity, which means in turn a lowering of the barriers between classes and a consequent tendency to equalize the different localities of the city one with another.
		Liberty will abolish interest; it will abolish profit; it will abolish monopolistic rent; it will abolish taxation; it will abolish the exploitation of labor; it will abolish all means whereby any laborer can be deprived of any of his product; but it will not abolish the limited inequality between one laborer's product and anothers.
		One of the chief purposes of equal liberty is to secure this fundamental necessity of property, and, if property is not thereby secured, the temptation is to abandon the regime of contract and return to the reign of the strongest.
	flag.blackened.net /daver/anarchism/tucker/tucker29.html (1697 words)

	SparkNotes: John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
		On Liberty depends on the idea that society progresses from lower to higher stages and that this progress culminates in the emergence of a system of representative democracy.
		Over time, the meaning of liberty changed along with the role of rulers, who came to be seen as servants of the people rather than masters.
		Moreover, individual action advances the mental education of that individual, something that government action cannot ever do, for government action always poses a threat to liberty and must be carefully watched.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/mill/section3.rhtml (1025 words)

	Liberty - The Total Failure of William Rehnquist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Burger's inability to maintain discipline among the Justices was also evident in media leaks from the Court and the large number of individual opinions issued during his tenure.
		Rather, he claimed that "the permanence of Jefferson resided not in his specific theories or acts of government, but in his democratic faith," even though Jefferson's greatest "theory" was that liberty, and not democracy, was the goal of politics.
		American constitutional law is caught in a bind between those who believe that individuals derive their significance and their rights from the permissions of the majority, and those who believe that people have certain inalienable rights which government exists to respect.
	libertyunbound.com /archive/2005_11/sandefur-rehnquist.html (2401 words)

	The Liberty Papers»Blog Archive » The Flag And Freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you give it to others.
		However, we must not allow our love for the flag-as-symbol to blind us to the reality that a law banning flag burning or desecration would be as much a restriction on individual liberty as would be a law banning publication of a book that seems to denigrate a religion.
		Take away the individual liberty, and the flag becomes a hollow, meaningless symbol.
	www.thelibertypapers.org /2006/06/15/the-flag-and-freedom (1669 words)

	International Society for Individual Liberty: Libertarian Activism Worldwide
		We are a network of individuals and associations in over 90 countries dedicated to building a free and peaceful world through the ideals of free markets, social tolerance and individual responsibility.
		In "Profiles on Liberty" will be featuring profiles on many heroic individuals and their work as they strive to build free societies in some of the most unlikely spots around the world.
		Our work for the cause of individual freedom in over 90 countries is funded almost entirely through donations from individuals like you – so please join ISIL now – or consider a donation.
	www.isil.org (1272 words)

	2006 Liberty Dinner \| New Hampshire Liberty Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Board of Directors of the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance has the honor of presenting the lineup for the 2006 Liberty Dinner, the premiere political event of the summer, to be held from 6:00pm to 9:00pm on the evening of Friday, June 30, at The Derryfield Country Club, 625 Mammoth Road, in Manchester, New Hampshire.
		All funds raised from the Liberty Dinner will be used to support identified pro-liberty candidates for state and local office throughout New Hampshire.
		Anyone who wishes to attend but finds the price to be beyond their reach is invited to obtain tickets at half-price in exchange for assisting with the event.
	www.nhliberty.org /2006_liberty_dinner (583 words)

	Republican Liberty Caucus of Georgia » FrontPage
		The Republican Liberty Caucus intends to use the recorded committee and floor votes for SB 155 as part of its review process for 2008 endorsements.
		The Republican Liberty Caucus believes that the prohibition of Sunday sales is an unnecessary intrusion on the rights of individuals and businesses to engage in commerce.
		The Republican Liberty Caucus intends to use the recorded committee and floor votes for SB 137 as part of its review process for 2008 endorsements.
	www.gopliberty.org (1128 words)

	LP News Oct95 - Court rated inconsistent toward individual liberty
		In the three close economic freedom cases the libertarian position prevailed in each, and in the two personal liberty cases the authoritarian position prevailed.
		Ratings for each individual justice were as follows, with the economic freedom rating followed by personal liberty rating: O'Connor: 80%/50%; Kennedy: 80%/50%; Souter: 38%/80%; Thomas: 80%/50%; Scalia: 80%/38%; Rehnquist: 80%/38%; Breyer: 38%/63%; Ginsberg: 38%/50%; and Stevens: 38%/88%.
		Copies of the 12-page review of 16 key cases and the voting records of the individual justices can be obtained from Don Ernsberger, 865 Meadowood Lane, Warminster, PA 18974 for $10.
	www.lp.org /lpn/9510-court.html (606 words)

	Liberty Education Fund - Home Page
		Throughout history, countless men have given their lives in pursuit of liberty, because individual liberty is necessary for men to prosper and live in peace with one another.
		We Americans are fortunate that our nation was founded specifically to protect our individual liberty, but it is all too clear that we face a continual barrage of threats to that liberty.
		We must recall that the basic principle of liberty is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.
	www.libertyed.org (330 words)

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