individual liberty

noun

the liberty of an individual to exercise freely those rights generally accepted as being outside of governmental control.

Originally—and up until fairly recently—the First Amendment was understood to be a shield protecting individual liberty.

The answer was to ensure that individual liberty was not trumped by religion or government or corporations.

Obamacare represents an “assault on individual liberty,” asserts Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution.

Is the goal merely an end to Israeli control over Palestinian lives or is it individual liberty and accountable government.

It can be pressed into service as an instrument of our commitment to individual liberty.

It does not mean doing away with individual liberty and reducing all to a dead level.

Factory laws, public health laws, education laws—all denounced as "interferences with individual liberty."

Just as the Anarchist sets up an abstract idea of individual liberty as his ideal, so he sets up an abstract idea of tyranny.

Laws are limitations of individual liberty set by society and therefore they are tyrannical.

That Gospel enjoins obedience to righteous law as the guaranty of individual liberty.

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