ABSTRACT
Defining freedom This book is concerned with freedom, and with 'alternatives to freedom' including some important and seductive ones. It combines and connects explicit and implicit arguments for freedom, or the alternatives to freedom, with the judgements of public opinion on these issues. Throughout this book, alternate chapters present the arguments of distinguished political figures and detail the opinions of the people. It is a revealing exercise to confront the carefuHy argued views of distinguished political figures, arrived at after lengthy and practical consideration of such questions, with the more immediate reactions of the British people to the same or similar questions.
