Moving to last week, economically depressed and unionized Michigan adopted a right-to-work law that will give the individual the freedom to not pay dues and not join a union in a unionized workplace.
The emphasis on individual freedom and civil rights helps humanize the issue.
Up to man's age-old dream-the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.
Thomas Kirby, a lawyer with Wiley Rein who represented the Center for Individual Freedom -- which alongside another conservative group the Hispanic Leadership Fund had appealed Van Hollen's victory in district court, welcomed the ruling.
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Why are we, who are uniquely privileged to have inherited the legacy of individual freedom, so eager to trade it away in search of the illusion of security?
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We believe in the basket of individual freedoms includes the freedom to access the Internet and the freedom to use social networking sites.
Einstein once observed that Westerners have a feeling the individual loses his freedom if he joins, say, a union or any group.
Portman embodies the formula for GOP modernization: a conservatism that unapologetically applies the principle of individual freedom consistently to both fiscal and social policy.
The Center for Individual Freedom is pursuing a similar ruling in Illinois, hoping to overturn a state law requiring advocacy groups to disclose donors.
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Albert Einstein definitely leaned towards the socialist end of the economic spectrum, but he always emphasized the important of individual freedom, democracy, and personal liberty.
The irony is that Obama arrives at the threshold of the White House steeped in ideas that subordinate individual freedom to the collective.
It would be unfortunate because it would take from one body the power to limit individual freedom, only to pass it on to state electorates so that they can do the same.
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They make the really big point that it supports individual liberties: the freedom of people to make their own choices, rather than having them determined by national governments, or circumscribed by the place in which they happen to live.
We have both a set of values and principles that we share that I believe are universal: the belief in individual liberty, in freedom of the press, in freedom of political assembly, in human rights.
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In 1900, the official Tax Freedom Day (the day individual citizens have worked long enough to pay their share of the taxes) was January 22.
The law also exempts records of individual handgun owners from the state Freedom of Information Law.
That view of the relation between the state and the individual was what made the American experiment with freedom so unique.
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The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.
You work together as a team, but at the same time have the freedom to excel as an individual within that team.
He expressed no willingness to adopt the sort of radical program built on individual freedom and economic opportunity that holds out the only hope of turning around the increasingly desperate Soviet situation.
The farmers' system and philosophy, he insists, have condemned them to go forth and multiply, peopling the earth and expanding their domain to the detriment of hunter-gatherers, whose philosophy, based on respect for nature and for the equality and freedom of each individual, including children, was no match for the rapacity, technology and productivity of the newcomers.
Many voters -- especially members of the millennial generation -- consider these positions at odds with libertarians' professed belief in maximizing individual freedom, but the contradiction and resulting voter alienation is entirely sidestepped.
If Mr Friedman is right that the growth of American law can best be explained as a product of the expansion of free markets, prosperity and individual freedom, then other countries are heading in the same direction.
The story of freedom is the story of how the individual escaped from ownership by the tribe.
We both agreed that the more we can do to showcase the success of free markets, commitments to democracy, human rights, individual liberties, freedom of the press, the more that we are highlighting those shared values between our two countries, the more successful the people of the region will be.
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"The freedom to pursue one's own sexuality is part of an individual's freedom of expression, " said Justice Carlos Ayres Britto, the author of the ruling.
The freedom of an individual to work, Romney said, is at the core of his foreign aid plan.
His amendments would be "a significant step forward for the right of privacy, individual freedom and democracy", he argued.
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There are many conservative arguments for reform: chiefly, it's about individual freedom and the strengthening of relationships and the family.
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Mikhail Bakunin, for example, who believed that without inner freedom for the individual, society can be neither free nor fair.
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