civil liberty in English
The existing law about involuntary commitment is the result of a long dialectic between an attitude of paternalism toward the mentally ill and ideals of personal freedom and civil liberty .
Use "civil liberty" in a sentence
1. Is the government running a secret military organization with the authority to disregard civil liberty?
2. It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of Civil life, Civil society, Civil government, and Civil liberty
3. Catholicity depends on no form of government; it leaves the people to adopt such forms of government as they please, because under any or all forms of government it can fulfill its mission of training up souls for heaven; and the eternal salvation of one single soul is worth more than, is a good far outweighing, the most perfect civil liberty