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Political liberty   /pəlˈɪtəkəl lˈɪbərti/   Listen
Political liberty

noun
1.
One's freedom to exercise one's rights as guaranteed under the laws of the country.  Synonym: civil liberty.






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"Political liberty" Quotes from Famous Books



... though we are all agreed that party politics are to have no place in the instruction of the college; yet in this country, practically governed as it is now by universal suffrage, every man who does his duty must exercise political functions. And, if the evils which are inseparable from the good of political liberty are to be checked, if the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom; it will be because men will gradually bring themselves to deal with political, as they now deal ...
— Harvard Classics Volume 28 - Essays English and American • Various

... she pursued was to constrain the French people, by means of the emperor's influence on the Powers, either by the humiliating parade of power at a congress, or by invasion. That is what she was believed to be contriving, and the sense of national independence was added to the motive of political liberty to make the Court unpopular. People denounced the Austrian cabal, and the queen as its centre. It was believed that she wished to govern not only through the royal authority restored, but through the royal authority restored by foreign oppressors. The Revolution ...
— Lectures on the French Revolution • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton



Words linked to "Political liberty" :   freedom, civil liberty



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