Abstract
Freedom or liberty consists of being free from any superior power on the earth. People are not under the will or lawmaking authority of others but have only the law of nature for their rule. In political society, the freedom consists of being under no other lawmaking power except that established by consent in the commonwealth. People are free from the dominion of any will or legal restraint apart from that enacted by their own constituted lawmaking power according to the trust put in it.
There are two concepts of liberty or two kinds of freedom
- Positive freedom (freedom of/ right to)