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civil liberty

noun

the freedom of a citizen to exercise customary rights, as of speech or assembly, without unwarranted or arbitrary interference by the government.
such a right as guaranteed by the laws of a country, as in the U.S. by the Bill of Rights.

civil liberty

First recorded in 1635–45

This is my big idea in How Sex Became a Civil Liberty: We made it up.

Leigh Ann Wheeler, the author of How Sex Became a Civil Liberty, on how civil libertarians invented sexual liberties.

Before Fort Sumter, Gordon, a lawyer, defended slavery as “the hand-maid of civil liberty.”

These resolves condemned the Stamp Act and defiantly acclaimed the rights which they considered essential to civil liberty.

Our civil liberty affords us a sufficient foundation, and our liberty leads us to absolute verity in art.

The Searcher of hearts knows that every pulsation of mine beats high and strong in the cause of civil liberty.

Nothing is more natural than the transition from civil liberty to religious freedom.

While, as has been said, this desire for civil liberty was extending, so also was the Reformation making great progress.

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