political liberty

Those aligned with the central government rejoiced at the return to “normalcy,” and an end to vigilante violence and civil strife, while others feared that the law could fundamentally undermine the city’s civil and political liberties.

While restrictions on civil and political liberties may be necessary to protect lives, human rights law requires that they go no further than what’s strictly necessary to achieve this goal.

They were men of sterling enterprise; of undaunted resolution; of high sentiments of religious and political liberty.

The rule of the majority is the price of political liberty, for which enlightened nations are willing to pay.

Calvinism drew with it a thirst for political liberty, and religious revolution became the prelude to political revolution.

The new Protestantism, like the new spirit of political liberty, saw its real foe in Philip.

See also Code.Civil liberty, developed in inverse ratio to political liberty, ii.