individual liberty

noun

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

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.

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It’s a rebuttal of the empty rhetoric that has somehow politicized a woman’s right to individual liberty.

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It’s a rebuttal of the empty rhetoric that has somehow politicized a woman’s right to individual liberty.

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I'm thinking about folks like Richard Viguerie, Morton Blackwell and Phyllis Schlafly, the movement O.G.'s who slaved for years in the trenches training Republicans to embrace such arcane subjects as "free trade," "individual liberty" and "limited government" — only to have a billionaire demagogue throw that all out the window for libertinism, central planning and vendetta by police state.

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In response to Governor Sanders’s letter, the American Beverage Association — which represents companies including Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Dr Pepper — warned that restrictions like these “effectively create a two-tiered system in which the right to personal autonomy around diet is conditioned on income and means,” calling it an affront to “America’s commitment to individual liberty and freedom.”

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