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

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

The core revolutionary principle according to this interpretive tradition is individual liberty.

From Literature

The district’s critical race theory ban also includes a provision against teaching "collectivism," the concept that group identity is more important than individual liberty.

From Fox News

It wasn’t that our ancestors didn’t love individual liberty; they just loved it a little less than they hated getting typhoid or smallpox.

From Washington Post

"Is that the answer to alleviating structural racism and white supremacy? What do we make of the pursuit of equality through the Office of Diversity and Inclusion? Social, racial and economic equality outcomes, as informed by the Office, can only be achieved through totalitarian initiatives. And that is exactly how the Office of Diversity and Inclusion is structured; to exercise control over thought and actions, and to marginalize disfavored groups. The University has chosen indoctrination over independent thought. Individual liberty has been suppressed to the benefit of collectivism."

From Fox News