Liberty is the state of being a free man i.e not a slave or serf. The sum of all the rights and immunities guaranteed by written or unwritten constitutions in democratic states or under limited monarchies. So far as these deal with the right of persons as members of a society, they constitute civil liberty, by suffrage and eligibility to public office, they constitute political liberty. The term liberty in the American Declaration of Independence and in the Bill of Rights of many States, refers to civil liberty.
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