NOUN | state | civil liberty, political liberty | one's freedom to exercise one's rights as guaranteed under the laws of the country |
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attribute | civil liberty | fundamental individual right protected by law and expressed as immunity from unwarranted governmental interference |
Meaning | One's freedom to exercise one's rights as guaranteed under the laws of the country. | |
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Synonym | political liberty | |
Broader | freedom | The condition of being free |
Meaning | fundamental individual right protected by law and expressed as immunity from unwarranted governmental interference. | |
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Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
Broader | civil right | Right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality |
Spanish | libertad civil | |
Adjectives | civil-libertarian | having or showing active concern for protection of civil liberties protected by law |
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