Wagner Munarriz
Zach Litton
ENG 1002-06
17 February 2011
The United States of America was founded under the principles of liberty and freedom for everyone, as the declaration of emancipation describes. Everyone in this country is free to do anything they want as long as it does not affect other people’s freedom or rights. Freedom remains the sole basis for American society as we know it. Many people believe feel as though we, as Americans, are the only ones who enjoy this freedom and liberty, while other countries in the world do not. It is time to analyze ourselves and the lives we live, to help realize if we really are free or not.
What does liberty means to you? According to Pastor Logan Hart. “Liberty is the concept of ideological and political philosophy that identifies the condition to which an individual has the right to behave according to one’s own personal responsibility and free will. The conception of liberty is influenced by ideals concerning the social contract as well as arguments that are concerned with the state of nature”. (Hart, 2008)
Hart states that true freedom is the ability to maintain a life of intention. He remarks how the meaning of this word can vary depending on the person .Hart defines liberty as situational and subjective to the degree that one person’s sense of freedom could appear to be bondage to another person. The book clearly represents Hart’s believes, but does not explore the true meaning of the word. Giving the reader the opportunity to look for other meanings and getting a personal conclusion of the topic.
The Essay on Freedom Of Speech One Person Man
Being citizens of the United States of America, we are given certain rights and privileges. One of these important privileges is provided to us by the first amendment of our constitution, the freedom of speech. Every person in our world is born with a distinct voice of his or her own. The fundamental question is whether or not a person is actually granted freedom to use his voice in all of its ...
Pastor Logan Hart analyzes the meaning of liberty and how it can be obtained. Also he shows how liberty relates and can be found on American history on his book “Personal Freedom”. This country was founded on the fundamental principles of liberty. The Declaration of Independence was composed as a legal notice to let England know that the colonies would no longer be the subjects of dictatorship. As a result, the Revolutionary War – a war for liberty – was fought, and the constitution was written forming a new government and nation. The bill of rights support the constitution specifying certain freedoms, between them freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom to petition, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, freedom from compelled self-inscrimination.etc.(133)
Founding father of United States Benjamin Franklin once affirmed, “Where Liberty dwells, there is my country.” Did the fathers of this country have the same understanding for liberty as we do nowadays for the same word? The founders of this country find liberty and freedom as two different but connected ideals. The two of these terms contain the idea of possessing the ability to execute one’s will, and a power to choose. These ideas of liberty and freedom came from Western Civilization, and for the most part are absent in other cultures before their contact with the West. (Breeds Hill Institute , 2008)
“Neither the Bill of Rights nor the specific practices of States at the time of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment marks the outer limits of the substantive sphere of liberty which the Fourteenth Amendment protects. The full scope of the liberty guaranteed by the Due Process Clause cannot be found in or limited by the precise terms of the specific guarantees elsewhere provided in the Constitution. This liberty is not a series of isolated points pricked out in terms of the taking of property; the freedom of speech, press, and religion; the right to keep and bear arms; the freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures; and so on. It is a rational continuum which, broadly speaking, includes a freedom from all substantial arbitrary impositions and purposeless restraints and which also recognizes, what a reasonable and sensitive judgment must, that certain interests require particularly careful scrutiny of the state needs asserted to justify their abridgment.” (Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 1992)
The Essay on Statue Of Liberty
I chose to write about the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty serves as a symbolic fixture of the principles America was founded on. She represents freedom, liberty, and opportunity. The location of the Statue of Liberty is an amazing feat in itself, it is right in the middle of a very wide and a very deep Hudson river, and at the time it was brought there, with the limited technology, was ...
Bibliography
Breeds Hill Institute . (2008, December).
Breed’s Hill institute. Retrieved February 17, 2011, from Breed’s Hill institute Web Site: http://www.breedshill.org/mission.htm
Hart, L. (2008).
What is liberty about? In L. Hart, Personal Freedom (p. 134).
Westbrooks.
Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 (U.S. 833 1992).
