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Introd. 3 Ends
government. In this sense the quantity of constitutional
liberty in a country is in equal proportion to
the share which the whole body of the people possess in the
exercise of the powers of government: and as the perfection
of security, or security spoken of mentioned without
limitation means the absence of all damage, so
the perfection of constitutional liberty in this sense an-
constitutional liberty in this sense without limitationconsists not in the absence of defalcations of security
resulting from abuse of power on the part of the persons
exercising the power of government, but in the exercise
of the powers of government on every occasion by
every member of the community, by every one of the
persons to be governed, by every member of the community
men <add>and women adults and minors, sane and insane, convict and unconvicted,</add> without distinction competence of a single individual. In
this sense liberty is the absence of all government other
than democratic government constituted and conducted in
the way just last mentioned. In this sense liberty, as conferred
to an the individual seems to be include synonymous to power
or a chance of power: the power of coercing other
individuals — the power of controuling the liberty of other
individuals.
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