Publication Date

November 1994

Document Type

Article

Disciplines

Political Science

Comments

Reprinted in Journal of Christian Reconstruction, XIV, 2 (Spring 1997): 155-74.

Abstract

Lieber argued that external liberty is an outgrowth of internal freedom. Real freedom is “perpetual, individual, and relates to the whole being.” Liberty is “granted, guaranteed, and, therefore, generally of a public character.” It is the political expression of this preexisting moral condition of the people. It is a practical result of flourishing institutions of self-government.

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