liberty
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Despite this, Todner, said Leroy's release conditions were "so stringent, his liberty is restricted".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Both inherited Britain’s long struggle to reconcile liberty with authority; they developed different parts of that inheritance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
“For me, it’s always been the question of, well, how much liberty are we willing to trade for safety?”
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Douglass relied instead on an interpretive rule: Where constitutional language permits more than one plausible meaning, choose the one favoring liberty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The core revolutionary principle according to this interpretive tradition is individual liberty.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
He found that African-Americans exercised their newfound liberties by participating in public life, earning money through a variety of jobs, and buying property.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
You may not get everything you want, but we should all agree that the civil rights and liberties the founding fathers sought to enshrine in our Constitution must be defended.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
Since the coup, the West African nation has seen a crackdown on many civil liberties.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
In 2005, the California government formally apologized for these forced removals, recognizing they were “fundamental violations of … basic civil liberties and constitutional rights” during a period “of illegal deportation and coerced emigration.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
It would fall to later composers to take more daring liberties with harmony.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing liberty
Preamble to the U.S. Constitution (1787)
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The Bill of Rights
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Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" (1863)
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