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Definition of Political liberty
1. Noun. One's freedom to exercise one's rights as guaranteed under the laws of the country.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Political Liberty
Literary usage of Political liberty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1872)
"No ideas or definitions are more distinguishable than those of civil and political
liberty ; yet they are generally confounded; and the latter cannot yet ..."
2. Lectures on jurisprudence or the philosophy of positive law by John Austin (1885)
"Nor can it mean that the governments which are denominated free, leave or grant
to their subjects more of political liberty than those which are styled ..."
3. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States by John Codman Hurd (1858)
"The first might also be properly distinguished as social or civil liberty; the
second, political liberty.' But since, wherever the last can be said to exist ..."
4. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States by John Codman Hurd (1858)
"The first might also be properly distinguished as social or civil liberty ; the
second, political liberty.* But since, wherever the last can be said to ..."
5. Essays on the Principles of Morality, and on the Private and Political by Jonathan Dymond (1880)
"political liberty implies the existence of such political institutions as secure,
... The possession of political liberty is of great importance. ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"EHV political liberty. political liberty, in its broadest sense includes the ...
While political liberty usually implies full civil liberty, the latter, ..."
7. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"It was only the religious earnestness, the confessional conflicts, and the
persecuting spirit of the sixteenth century, that kept alive political liberty, ..."
8. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"It was only the religious earnestness, the confessional conflicts, and the
persecuting spirit of the sixteenth century, that kept alive political liberty, ..."
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