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Singular freedom

Plural countable and uncountable; plural freedoms

freedom (countable and uncountable; plural freedoms)

  1. (uncountable) The state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
    Having recently been released from prison, he didn't know what to do with his newfound freedom.
  2. (countable) The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.
    Freedom of speech is a basic democratic value.
    People in our city enjoy many freedoms.
    Every child has a right to freedom from fear and freedom from want.

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Political freedom is the absence of interference with the sovereignty of an individual by the use of coercion or aggression. Freedom is commonly known as a state of being free from government oppression.

The opposite of a free society is a totalitarian state, which highly restricts political freedom in order to regulate almost every aspect of behavior. In this sense ‘freedom’ refers solely to the relation of humans to other humans, and the only infringement on it is coercion by humans.

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Sun Jan 10 15:44:51 2010

Is political correctness a violation of freedom of speech?
Q. "Ruth Perry traces the term back to Mao's Little Red Book. According to Perry, the term was later adopted by the radical left in the 1960s" Is political correctness just a sneaky form of authoritarian control, and a a violation of freedom of speech?
Asked by doodlebugjimv5 - Wed Jan 14 14:39:13 2009 - - 20 Answers - 0 Comments

A. It is not a 'sneaky' form of authoritarian control. It is authoritarian control, black and white, no bells or whistles, no bones about it. That the two doctrines of freedom of speech and political correctness have existed together in western societies at the same time is somewhat surprising. Up until about this point freedom of speech has tended to trump political correctness, legally. Recently however the screws have been tightened and you can expect more of the same in the future.
Answered by slay247 - Wed Jan 14 14:57:17 2009

Doesn't a political group focused on gaining legislation that is religious goes against religious freedom?
Q. Doesn't a political group focused on gaining legislation that is religious goes against the freedom of religion outlined in the U.S. Constitution?
Asked by NoName - Thu Apr 3 10:34:48 2008 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Not neccessarily. It deoends on what they are campaigning for. No, if you are campaigning to gain rights for your group - tax-free status, money for social programs, starting a school. Yes, if you are campaiging to limit the rights of others - right to marry, right to medical care, right to vote.
Answered by KSprad - Thu Apr 3 10:39:43 2008

How did the Jacksonian Democrats go against the freedom of political democracy?
Q. That is the only thing I need for a paper, and I am having trouble finding it. Can someone help? sources needed
Asked by I Love samiches - Wed Nov 5 22:20:07 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Jackson expanded the right of suffrage to include citizens who were not landowners. Prior, you had to own property to be able to vote. BUT, he did not extend suffrage to women, blacks, or Native Americans. Plus, he was not real excited about extending citizenship to immigrants.
Answered by Studbolt X - Wed Nov 5 22:27:04 2008

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ~ Adlai Stevenson
  • At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has been sometimes disastrous, by giving to opponents just grounds of opposition, and by kindling dispute over the spoils in the hour of success. No obstacle has been so constant, or so difficult to overcome, as uncertainty and confusion touching the nature of true liberty. If hostile interests have wrought much injury, false ideas have wrought still more; and its advance is recorded in the increase of knowledge, as much as in the improvement of laws.
  • The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
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usually just and right and sympathy with their struggle is overwhelming Who can t sympathize with a group fighting for freedom or even simply to survive That s right most rebel forces a re fighting for political causes However some are comprised of tribal and religious groups that have been slaughtered by their government near the point of extinction and are now fighting

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reforms that move an economy closer to capitalism have a greater positive influence on the well being of women than political reforms that increase women s participation in decision making Measuring Sticks and Outcomes A capitalistic or economically free society is one in which institutions are characterized by personal choice voluntary exchange freedom to compete and

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hope for a system of stable constitutional freedoms but actually destroyed all French civil government of any kind exactly as the high level Masons and Illuminati secretly desired 3 Humanum Genus on Freemasonry by Pope Leo XIII 1884 In this encyclical Leo exhorts the leaders of the Catholic Church to tear away the mask from Freemasonry and let it be seen as it

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