individual liberty

American  

noun

1. the liberty of an individual to exercise freely those rights generally accepted as being outside of governmental control.

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Example Sentences

In a sprawling nation founded on the precept of individual liberty and populated primarily by immigrants from around the world, there was hardly one American experience.

From The Wall Street Journal

After living under the tyranny of King George III, whose hated armed troops ate their food and slept in quarters the colonists were forced to provide under the Quartering Act of 1865, the drafters of the Constitution held a widespread fear of a national standing army, which they believed posed a threat to individual liberty and the sovereignty of the separate states.

From Salon

There’s a gap between America’s self-image as a country founded on the idea of individual liberty and the horrific reality of slavery.

From Salon

“It’s the one thing that can bring me back to earth, believing in individual liberty.”

From Los Angeles Times

The previous definition, introduced in 2011 under the Prevent strategy, described extremism as "vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and belief".

From BBC