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FREEDOM Whose definition are we following?

If you were to ask people in today’s world what the most important element of a country’s constitution should be, or what they would regard as the basic foundation of human rights, you would probably hear the same answer, over and over again – freedom. What is the definition of freedom though? Or perhaps we should ask – who’s definition of freedom do we use?

Man-made freedom

Our modern world has distorted the concept of freedom.

Terms such as ‘freedom of speech’ justify people

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