1. Bureaucratic power has encroached upon the freedom of the individual.

2. Under social liberalism, the common good is viewed as harmonious with the freedom of the individual.

3. 21 The growth of bureaucratic power since 1900, Handlin wrote, had begun ominously to encroach upon the freedom of the individual.

4. The American Baptist Church, USA, has roughly 1.3 million members and was formerly known as the Northern Baptist Convention, which formed after the split with the Southern Baptists. A key distinctive of the American Baptists is the freedom of the individual churches to have differing beliefs.