As we approached our work, my colleagues and I looked to the U.S. Constitution for guidance. It states, 'No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.' No person, no exceptions.
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There can be no liberty without the law.
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
The right of liberty is God-given and immortal. It cannot be regulated. Or controlled. It cannot be banned. And it must not be restricted.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. Liberty is not provided by government; liberty preexists government. It's our natural birthright, not a gift from the sovereign. Our founders upended things and divided power to enshrine a promise, not a process.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.