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~olitical liberty: Men enjoy political libe
capacity of a citizen. In modern democracy,
g ,ernment is constituted by the people, political Ii
a "a liberty not of curbing government, but of co~
and controlling; constituting-it by general act of c
election, in which we all freely share on the _basis of
suffrage; controlling it by a general and continuous
of discussion, in which we all freely share according
capacities".
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right of the people to be ~epre~e?ted in decisionbodies, and to influence the~ dec1s1ons by freely artic
their vieWs and opinions on issues ofpublic policy. In
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Economic liberty: Economic liberty, br
speaking, belongs to man in hi capcity as a: worker W-~-with hand or brain, engaged in some gainfull occupation
service. In this sense, Barker suggests that economic 1i
is implied in the articles of civil liberty already enum
R.H. Tawney, in his Equality, has significaa
observed: When liberty is construed, realistically, as impl
not merely a ininimum q_f civil and political rights, but
securities that the economically weak will not be at the
of the eco~oinically strong, and that the control of
aspects of econon1ic life by which all are affected
amenable, in the last resort, to the will of all, a large
of equality, so far from being inimical to liberty, is
. to it.