By Joe Fantauzzi @jjfantauzzi
At the core of many modern democracies is the concept of freedom. Variations of the word “free” appear 27 times in the text of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.[1] “Liberty” appears in the preamble of the Constitution of the United States.[2] But the nature of freedom, liberty or whatever else a society chooses to call the ability to pursue those things that makes us better or happier as a species, is amorphous. Here, it is discussed in two schools: that of negative freedom, more expressly defined as liberty from interference, and that of (Read more…)