political liberty
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5.3
- noun
- /pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˈlɪbərti/
- Formal
:
libertad política
- The constitutional reforms aimed to enhance political liberty by ensuring that everyone can vote and express their opinions freely.
- civil and political liberty
Examples
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Yet political liberty is not easily or long separated from economic freedom.
Academic text (1991) -
After extensive discussion, they found that freedom also meant political liberty—freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and so on.
Academic text (1999) -
Political liberties refer to the freedom that the population has in the political system.
Academic text (1990) -
People begin to place a growing emphasis on free choice in politics and demand civil and political liberties and democratic institutions.
Academic text (2009) -
Is the insistence on economic stability compatible with other goals, especially growth and development, social equity, and political liberty?
Academic text (1999) -
In a recent study, Pourgerami and Djeto produced empirical evidence to support a positive relationship between political liberty and economic growth.
Academic text (1994) -
The effect of politicized religion, however, may be detrimental to political liberty and stability.
Academic text (2000) -
Thomas D. Anderson ranked 165 countries in terms of six civil and political liberties.
Academic text (1992) -
While such measures assisted his political fortunes, they suppressed an important element of political liberty.
Academic text (1997) -
Alexis de Tocqueville warned that political liberty is easily lost but can only be acquired with great difficulty.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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1.0
The right to act, speak, or think as you want without being stopped
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3.3
Being free from unfair rules or control by government
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4.6
A basic right protected by law against unfair government action, like freedom of speech or religion
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6.7
The right of a region or group to run its own government
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3.5
The right to choose what to think and do without unfair control by others
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5.0
A legal and moral claim to be free from unfair arrest and official control
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3.6
Legal protections and choices each person has against unfair treatment
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently composed from 'political' (relating to politics or public affairs) and 'liberty' (freedom), so it refers straightforwardly to freedom in the civic or governance domain. This ADJ+NOUN composition is a regular, non-idiomatic pattern found cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase political liberty may come from the image of a town with its gates open and a busy public square where citizens could gather and speak freely. When the gates were open, people had 'freedom' to join meetings and help make decisions, so the phrase now means the legal 'freedom' to take part in government and use your 'rights'.