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Liberty for Individuality
ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation: LIBERTY FOR INDIVIDUALITY Claire Louise Morgan, Ph.D., 2004 Dissertation Directed By: Professor Stephen L. Elkin, Government & Politics Over the last couple of decades libertarianism has gained a lot of attention and garnered much public support. The movement stands …
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Liberty in full : Justice Stephen Field's cooperative constitution of liberty.
… Court Justice Stephen Field's understanding of liberty. Scholars often define Field's liberty solely as opposition to government regulation. I challenge this position, arguing that Field articulated a fuller liberty, one which encompassed liberty both from and through government action. Justice …
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Perfectionist Republicanism: Liberty, Flourishing, Excellence
… central normative ideals: (i) protecting equal liberty; (ii) realising the flourishing of every citizen; and (iii) the cultivation of excellence in a wide range of domains, including the arts, science, music, philosophy, humanities, and even athletic achievements. Each stage is both an end as …
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Baptists and religious liberty: 1700-1900
… and historical understanding of religious liberty and separation of church and state among seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth-century American Baptists. Chapter 1 provides a brief overview of the historiography of Baptist advocacy of religious liberty and church-state separation. Chapter 2 …
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East of Liberty : reclaiming Main Street
… the world. Specifically discussed here is East Liberty part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's "East End." Over a forty-five year period East Liberty has been disassociated from her neighbors and become an archipelago like many of Pittsburgh's neighborhoods. Since the sixties, when the first …
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A civil liberty or sexual exploitation: revenge porn?
“Revenge porn” is commonly used to describe the distributed digital and print publication of an individual in a nude state without the individual’s consent. Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act is a Federal Act protecting web distributors from legal repercussions if revenge porn materials …
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The Justification and Limits of Liberty of Conscience
… the dilemma of the justification and limits of liberty of conscience (a term that encompasses, but is not limited to, freedom of religion). In this thesis, I defend the protection of liberty of conscience as against a state’s laws (that is, what are sometimes called ‘exemptions’). Drawing on the …
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Histories of Liberty in Scottish Thought, 1747-1787
… them free; the best way of sustaining both liberty and commerce in a monarchy, he argued instead, was through feudal property and feudal courts. This story was picked up in Scotland by John Dalrymple, David Hume, and Adam Smith—each of whom used it to re-think English history. At the same …
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Liberty, Community, and the Free Man in Magna Carta
… dissertation is an overview of the concept of liberty and community in Magna Carta. The central point is the ethical understanding of liberty which Salisbury calls the habitus of liberty. Liberty is an ethical condition of the individual which exists in tension and parallel to the social status …
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A critical examination and contemporary application of John Stuart Mill's principle of liberty as propounded in his essay "On liberty".
Mill's essay On Liberty has been regarded as one of the greatest landmarks and heritages of Western liberal thought. Mill's pleas for the search for truth and the march of mind toward human progress through his principle of liberty as propounded in his essay On Liberty have everlasting value. At …
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Balancing liberty of contract with police power : a Hobbesian approach.
… exists by negotiating a fine balance between the liberty of the citizen and the authority of the state. Yet, as the years put distance between our founding principles and their execution, we have become forgetful of the symbiosis that unites individual and common goods. Particularly in American …
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Liberty, peace, and friendliness: the political ideas of Auberon Herbert
… aptly describing Voluntaryism as the system of liberty, peace and friendliness, applied these principles to a range of situations from street maintenance, to collective property purchase, and, finally, to the voluntary support of the state. Voluntary taxation was the most controversial component …
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Contest of Civility: Conformity, Dissent, and the Struggle for Religious Liberty
… by faith alone, the proclamation of “Christian liberty,” and the proliferation of doctrinal and denominational pluralism forced the theologians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to reexamine the Christendom thesis. The contours of that delicate relationship gripped the minds of …
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The ideal of liberty in the political philosophy of David Hume
… politics associated with citizenship, political liberty (as opposed to civil) and the ‘active life’. However, despite Hume’s thorough criticism of classical- and other forms of republicanism, namely Whig contractualism, I argue that Hume’s concept of liberty remains essentially republican: …
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The Development of The Concept of Liberty in The Fourteenth Amendment
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