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liberty and privilege
" In Joseph Story's 1833 treatise Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, he wrote, " t is a most important and valuable amendment ; and places upon the high ground of constitutional right the inestimable privilege of a trial by jury in civil cases, a privilege scarcely inferior to that in criminal cases, which is conceded by all to be essential to political and civil liberty.
He saw “ an equal privilege to share in the blessing of libertyand detected an intimate link between the institution of property and the lack of freedom.
William Blackstone wrote that it was " the most transcendent privilege which any subject can enjoy, or wish for, that he cannot be affected either in his property, his liberty, or his person, but by the unanimous consent of twelve of his neighbours and equals.
In Joseph Story's 1833 treatise Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, he wrote, " t is a most important and valuable amendment ; and places upon the high ground of constitutional right the inestimable privilege of a trial by jury in civil cases, a privilege scarcely inferior to that in criminal cases, which is conceded by all to be essential to political and civil liberty.
* A liberty right or privilege, in contrast, is simply a freedom or permission for the right-holder to do something, and there are no obligations on other parties to do or not do anything.
In 1635 the owners of the liberty governed the port and town where 24 burgesses had the privilege of buying and selling goods brought in by sea.
It implied, however, that any approved Roman confessor had faculties to absolve from reserved cases ( sins whose forgiveness can only be granted by certain priests ), and that the liberty thus virtually accorded of selecting a confessor was regarded as a privilege.
It is hardly conceivable that a pope should allow any group of bishops the privilege of calling his infallibility in question, putting his doctrinal decisions upon trial, to be accepted or rejected ; or that he would grant any kings the privilege of suppressing or curtailing his liberty of communication with the faithful in a certain territory.
( 4 ) The President of the Republic has also one very desired privilege. He can have mercy on any criminal and if the President is convinced of his innocence without the advice and on personal ground, he / she may grace the criminal liberty and also a emptied police criminal file of that person. He may therefore only once during his term grace anyone of illegal acts and thus can free that person of any charges even of 1st degree of murder but he should prove the innocence of that individual.
By granting the patent holder the exclusive right, privilege and liberty of making, constructing, using, and selling the invention, the patent act establishes that any other person making, constructing, using, or selling the patented invention is infringing that patent.
The liberty privilege for the Mainz citizens is engraved on the bronze wings.
Such a person has more freedom, more liberty, and more privilege than those outside the church.
The personal liberty laws forbade justices and judges to take cognizance of claims, extended the Habeas corpus act and the privilege of jury trial to fugitives, and punished false testimony severely.
We, the People of the State of Arkansas, grateful to Almighty God for the privilege of choosing our own form of government ; for our civil and religious liberty ; and desiring to perpetuate its blessings, and secure the same to our selves and posterity ; do ordain and establish this Constitution.
So for us even the hour of liberty rang out grave and muffled, and filled our souls with joy and yet with a painful sense of pudency, so that we would have liked to wash our consciences and our memories clean from the foulness that lay upon them ; and also with anguish, because we felt that this should never happen, that now nothing could ever happen good and pure enough to rub out our past, and that the scars of the outrage would remain within us forever ... Because, and this is the awful privilege of our generation and of my people, no one better than us has ever been able to grasp the incurable nature of the offense, that spreads like a contagion.

liberty and immunity
Danish agitators of German nationality could not be touched so long as they were careful to keep within the limits of the law ; pro-Danish newspapers owned and staffed by German subjects enjoyed immunity in accordance with the constitution, which guarantees the liberty of the press.
Hughes ( Ct ): "... the fact that liberty of press may be abused does not make any less necessary the immunity of the press from prior restraint ... a more serious evil would result if officials could determine which stories can be published ..."
Rights to private property, freedom of speech, immunity from police abuse, contractual liberty and free exercise of religion — just as much as rights to Social Security, Medicare and food stamps — are taxpayer-funded and government-managed social services designed to improve collective and individual well-being.
* " The essence of any struggle for healthy liberty has always been, and must always be, to take from some one man or class of men the right to enjoy power, or wealth, or position, or immunity, which has not been earned by service to his or their fellows.

liberty and teach
In 1905 and 1906, the Bessarabian zemstva asked for the re-introduction of Romanian in schools as a " compulsory language ", and the " liberty to teach in the mother language ( Romanian language )".
While liberals believe that, on sexual matters, " the Pope can teach whatever he wants ... but whether or not he should be listened to is very much an open question ", the stance of certain traditionalists on the reform of the Mass liturgy and contemporary teachings on ecumenism and religious liberty amounts to the view that, on these issues, " faithful Catholics are always free to resist Pope's folly .... As theories of religious dissent go, Catholic liberals couldn't ask for anything more.
His right thus to teach and the right of parents to engage him so to instruct their children, we think, are within the liberty of the amendment.

liberty and proclaim
now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Saturday, May 20th, 1961, as Armed Forces Day, reminding our citizens that we should rededicate ourselves to our Nation, respecting the uniforms as the guardians of our precious liberty.
:" As the mayor of Inglis, duly elected by the citizens of this town, and appointed by God to this position of leadership, I proclaim victory over Satan, freedom for our citizens, and liberty to worship our Creator and Heavenly Father, the God of Israel.
The same year, William Lloyd Garrison's anti-slavery publication The Liberator reprinted a Boston abolitionist pamphlet containing a poem entitled " The Liberty Bell ", which noted that, at that time, despite its inscription, the bell did not proclaim liberty to all the inhabitants of the land.
The elevation of Tsar Alexander I ( Alexander I of Russia ) a few weeks later led to his release ; he was then “ given full liberty to proclaim his religious teachings ” by the Russian government.
This inspired some of the " strangers " ( colonists who were not members of the congregation of religious dissenters leading the expedition ) to proclaim that since the settlement would not be made in the agreed-upon Virginia territory, they " would use their own liberty ; for none had power to command them ...." To prevent this, many of the other colonists decided to establish a government.
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
Will you proclaim to the world that you who carry liberty and democracy to Europe have no liberty here, that you who are fighting for democracy in Germany, suppress democracy right here in New York, in the United States?
" It would proclaim to the world — both figuratively and literally — that the path to the light of liberty is open to all.
But today we proclaim it to the universe, and generations to come will glory in this decree ; we are proclaiming universal liberty ... We are working for future generations ; let us launch liberty into the colonies ; the English are dead, today.

liberty and theory
It was written in a style at once precise and picturesque, and was dominated by a theory of Anglo-Saxon liberty resisting the invasions of northern barbarians, and eventually reviving in the parliamentary monarchy.
They opposed the alliance between the state and the Church as the enemy of human progress and well-being because the coercive apparatus of the state curbed individual liberty and the Church legitimated monarchs by positing the theory of divine origin.
A number of classical liberals including John Locke, Thomas Paine, and Jefferson recognized that absolute ownership of natural resources could deprive liberty, but classified the great amounts of land populated by indigenous peoples as " unsettled ", avoiding the issue in theory, if not in practice.
The resultant theory is known as " Justice as Fairness ", from which Rawls derives his two principles of justice: the liberty principle and the difference principle.
He argues for an originalist theory of constitutional interpretation, and for constitutional construction based on a presumption of liberty ( not popular sovereignty ).
On the other hand, Costanzo Preve ( 1990 ) has assigned four " masters " to Marx: Epicurus ( to whom he dedicated his thesis, Difference of natural philosophy between Democritus and Epicurus, 1841 ) for his materialism and theory of clinamen which opened up a realm of liberty ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from which come his idea of egalitarian democracy ; Adam Smith, from whom came the idea that the grounds of property is labour ; and finally Hegel.
This follows British practice, though not theory: no British Monarch has vetoed a bill for almost three hundred years ( the last exercise of a veto was by Queen Anne in 1708 ), and " common law " makes it doubtful that any future Monarch would consider himself or herself at liberty to do so.
* Penal harm, a theory that inmates in prison should suffer additional pain to deprivation of liberty
Under American jurisprudence, the avenues for use of this theory by courts are the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which prohibit the federal and state governments, respectively, from depriving any person of " life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
" By pressing the issue of sovereignty to an ultimate confrontation in this way ," remarks Keith Michael Baker of Maupeou's staffing his remodelled courts with men willing to exercise judicial functions within limits imposed by the royal will, " he undermined in practice that exactly that belief in a constitutional middle ground between liberty and despotism that Saige had been concerned to deny in theory ".
Because liberty was an important part of republican thought, many republican thinkers were appropriated by the theory of classical liberalism.
With the growth of Parliamentary sovereignty as a doctrine, Coke's theory gradually died out ; William Blackstone, in the first edition of his Commentaries on the Laws of England, wrote that " if the parliament will positively enact a thing to be done which is unreasonable, I know of no power that can control it: and the examples alleged in support of this sense of the rule do none of them prove, that where the main object of a statute is unreasonable the judges are at liberty to reject it ; for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government ".
And in this regard, we observe that the principle of the misfortunes that afflict public at this time, the kingdom, and particularly the province of Brittany, that comes from that, in practice, it was too disregarded this theory legislation, without which there is no more true public liberty, that there were born successively these dangerous factions that divide the kingdom and known under the names of republican factions, royalists, monarchiennes and others, thereby yet respect for the law has naturally weakened, as soon as one hand, the birth of all these factions, and the whispers of other people only too clear that she did not it for this expression of the general will, which only form the most imposing character.
According to this theory, men are in origin in a state of liberty and decide to give up their liberties in exchange of protection and security and when this condition is not fulfilled, they are at liberty to break their contract.

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