Liberty One of the central concerns of social and political philosophy has been the issue of what limits, if any, there are to the right of the state to restrict the "liberty" of its citizens. Unless one is convinced of the truth of...

At least three American magazines since the late nineteenth century have called themselves Liberty. The most commonly known is the mass-circulation pulp magazine that reached a circulation of 2.4 million during the 1930s, when it was controlled by the...

Liberty (or freedom) is often divided by political theorists into two types, for analytic clarity. Negative liberty refers essentially to ‘absence of external constraints’ (see state of nature). Thus, as long as there is no law or social...

The relationship between ecclesiology and MISSIOLOGY is particularly interesting. There is a sense in which missiology is a subdivision of ecclesiology, for it is the church that is mandated to mission and it is the lay and ordained members of the...

Liberty is generally considered a concept of political philosophy and identifies the condition in which an individual has the ability to act according to his or her own will. Individualist and liberal conceptions of liberty relate to the freedom of the...

Amnesty lives, after all. A week after the conservative base of the G.O.P. rallied to block the Senate’s plan for comprehensive immigration reform, President Bush commuted the 30-month prison sentence of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby. The president’s procedural end-run around the justice system came just...

Justice Stephen Breyer on Saturday stressed the role of the Supreme Court in protecting civil liberties in an age of terrorism.At a public appearance in Brussels, Belgium, the justice said the high court made a mistake in World War II when it said the relocation...

RoadWorthy! By Ken Chester, Jr. Motor News Media Corporation All new from the ground up: 2008 Jeep Liberty SUV Since its introduction in 2002, the Liberty has been a favorite with consumers looking for that special combination of personal freedom and...

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. will swap its controlling stake in the satellite TV broadcaster DirecTV Group Inc. with Liberty Media Corp. in exchange for Liberty's 16 percent stake in News Corp., the companies announced Friday.The deal settles a long-simmering dispute between Murdoch, News Corp.'s chairman...

Essay provides a look at the different ideas of liberty.