Essays on Liberty

Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, born on 25 October 1767, was a Swiss-French political activist and writer on politics and religion. Famously known for his french translated article The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns, Constant depicts the several augmentations nations have...

“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost”. This quotation is pivotal in terms of understanding the symbiotic relationship between the ‘Press’ and the concept of ‘Liberty’. Liberty is derived from the Latin word liber which...

Introduction 1.1. Scope: Freedom is an extremely far-reaching thought and it changes with the difference in time and different things, for example, standpoint, physical conditions, state of mind, and so on. By freedom, one need not mean just political or some other’ specific sort of...

Assata Shakur, is a freedom We as a community aspire for freedom. Liberty and equality are what we all want in our respective communities, and we have fought for these for decades together. However, we are yet to achieve lete equality and justice in the...

In this essay, I will argue that, in order to maximize the well-being of a state’s citizens, the key focus on liberal theory, liberals and their systems should value both negative and positive liberties. This is due to negative liberty’s approach towards limiting the externalities...

Human civilization has always been accompanied by disputes and wars, in the tremendous transformation of thousand years. From ancient Babylon and Egypt to the modern society, there have been thousands of wars. Mankind has made countless sacrifices, in order to expand and defend their homeland....

The liberty and general welfare are two theories in which supporting one can lead to adversarial effects on the other. Liberty means state of acting freely within a group or society from restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of behavior, way of life or...