ABSTRACT
There is one very obvious sense in which a community may be called free, viz. the sense that it is independent of any other community. As to this sort of freedom more will be said later, but 8CF8;;14F4;;C>340;RABCF8C75A443><F8C78=C742><<D=8CH#>F0<0=8B<>BC>1E8>DB;H unfree when he is in the power of another, and he most obviously becomes free when emancipated from such power. But does anyone (even our free monarch) ever really cease to be dependent on others? Are we not all bound by law and government, by our position, by the obligations we have assumed, and so on, and are we not thus compelled to be guided, more or less completely as the case may be, by the will of others? These are points which we must examine, but let us at once remark that there is a distinction between arbitrary power and regular power. It is one thing to be bound by law and subject to its interpreters and administrators, and another to be at the mercy of individual caprice. It is at least the RABCBC4?8=5A443><C>144<0=28?0C435A><C740A18CA0AH?>F4A>5C748=38E83D0;4E4=85 we only exchange it for the uniform and impartial control of law.1 Some thinkers would seem to 2>=B834AC78BRABCBC4?C>140;B>C74;0BCBC4?0=3C>2>=248E40*C>?80>52><?A474=B8E4 regulations in which certainly no man could tyrannize or exploit another because no one could move outside the narrowly prescribed path. If this does not satisfy our conception of a 5A44;854F4<DBC;>>:5DAC74AC8B=>CBD5R284=CC70C;0FB7>D;3?A>C42CDB5A><0A18CA0AH power. It is necessary that law, customs and institutions should themselves be free, that is compatible with freedom of life for those who live under their shadow. How can this be?
