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Note
Civil
Introd. 3 Ends subord. No other
Liberty
Political Liberty
Liberty in a political sense is sometimes employed used
with a view to constitutional law, and sometimes
with a view to international law. In the first case
it is the absence of all government other than democratical
according to the purest that is the most
thorough species of democratical government conceivable.
In the other case it is the absence of dependence
on the government of a foreign nation.
I stand am deprived of constitutional liberty in as far as
the <add>state community</add> nation government of the state under which I live deviates
from the sort of government one in which every act of government is
exercised by an assembly comprised of into which
all every individual in the country member of the community without exception,
man or male and female, adults and
minors, sens sane and insane, convicts and unconvicted
have libert has a vote.
I am deprived of liberty in an international
sense, in as far as the territory I belong to district I live in, having
a government which allowed to be competent to
all or many purposes of government subject to under the
the controuling agency of another government
condition of being under the controul
which the native in another country is subject
to the controuling agency of such distant government.
Belonging to Inland Guernsey Jamaica for instance, Guernsey or Jamaica or Canada, or
Bengal I stand deprived from of a greater or less share
of liberty in an international sense by belonging to Guernsey,
to Jamaica, to Canada, to Bengal, instead of belonging directly to Great Britain which
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