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

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

An economic model that puts profits over people as well as the future of the planet and sees laborers as simply a resource to be exploited needs to be challenged by a country that proposes to care about individual liberty and human rights, and our children’s future.

From Seattle Times

The contest between nobles and kings — and later, I would add, between church and state, and among the hundreds of states, duchies and principalities of medieval Europe — all helped individual liberty grow and flourish.

From Washington Post