political liberty
Americannoun
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The American Revolution, which initiated the revolutionary era, launched the foundation of the newly formed United States of America but established a paradoxical model of political liberty that coexisted with the institution of slavery.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Instead, Witherspoon argued that full knowledge of God’s truth was only possible under the reign of religious and political liberty.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 4, 2022
The ideal political liberty, for example, will be found midway between no freedom and unlimited freedom.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2020
It also quotes a suffragist pointing out the inconsistency of using a female figure as the face of political liberty when women did not yet have the right to vote.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2019
Political liberty.—Political liberty means all the guaranties which insure to every citizen the legitimate exercise of his natural rights; political liberty is, then, the sanction of civil liberty.
From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet
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