Freedom Law and Legal Definition
Freedom is the state of being liberated or free. It can also be a political right.
The term freedom in a broader sense includes:
a) the condition of being free of restraints;
b) liberty of a person from slavery, detention, or oppression;
c) political independence and exemption from the arbitrary exercise of authority in the performance of a specific action;
d) a civil liberty, that is a guaranteed protection against interference with the interests and rights held dear and important by large classes of civilized men, or by all the members of a state. Such liberty is coupled with an effectual share in the making and administration of the laws;
e) exemption from an onerous and unpleasant condition;
f) the ability or capacity to exercise choice or free will;
g) ease or facility of movement;
h) right of enjoying all of the privileges of membership or citizenship;
i) and; a right or the power to engage in certain actions without control or interference.
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Related Legal Terms
- Academic Freedom
- Annual Report on Advancing Freedom and Democracy
- Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003
- Commission on International Religious Freedom
- Constitutional Freedom
- Eighth Freedom of the Air
- Famine Prevention and Freedom from Hunger Improvement Act
- Fifth Freedom of the Air
- First Freedom of the Air
- Fourth Freedom of the Air
