personal liberty
the liberty of an individual to act with free will except for those restraints imposed by law to safeguard the physical, moral, political, and economic welfare of others.
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These include anxiety about unnatural substances in the body, vaccines as government surveillance or weapons, and personal liberty violations.
Vaccine hesitancy is nothing new. Here’s the damage it’s done over centuries | Tara Haelle | May 11, 2021 | Science NewsAs freelance writer Tara Haelle reports, anti-vaccination groups argued that requiring vaccination violated personal liberty and interfered with parents’ rights to “protect their children from disease.”
Obviously, that allows us to impose enormous infringements on personal liberty.
How Public Health Experts Turned Corporations into Public Enemy #1 | Megan McArdle | March 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST“Hospital management has been privatized, and so personal liberty is being bought and sold,” said Wang.
Chinese Government Institutionalizes People Against Their Will: Chinese Human-Rights Defenders | Paul Mooney | August 22, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAre we still a nation born of personal liberty, opportunity, and self-reliance?
They struggled against their masters, and tried to secure their personal liberty, and the freedom of their land.
Landholding In England | Joseph FisherThey not only managed most of its details for him, but were permitted a good deal of personal liberty.
The Middy and the Moors | R.M. BallantyneThe mountaineer is restive under discipline and passionate in his insistence on personal liberty.
The Code of the Mountains | Charles Neville BuckWhat advantage shall we have in strengthening the empire of Rome, if we cannot preserve our personal liberty?
History of Julius Caesar Vol. 1 of 2 | Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873.The reasons adduced among us in justification of slaveholding, and therefore against personal liberty, are multitudinous.
No Compromise with Slavery | William Lloyd Garrison
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