If only Yale would rediscover the essential elements of liberal education, it would be well within its capabilities to protect all students' civil rights while ensuring that the university does not abet the great menace to educational opportunity in our era: the cultivation of an environment hostile to liberty of thought and discussion.

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Mr Sell's brief to the Supreme Court follows this line of argument, making broad claims that the government's efforts to inject him with mind-altering drugs is such a breach of his rights to liberty, bodily integrity, freedom of thought, personal autonomy and privacy that it should not be allowed.

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"Every American who believes in freedom of thought and religious liberty should be alarmed by the attacks upon the Boy Scouts, who have had core convictions about morality for 100 years, " the ad said.

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Countryside campaigners today accused Labour of "stifling" liberty and risking the creation of a society of "Stasi and thought police", after the party banned their press conference in the main hotel in Brighton.

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But, when is the last time you thought about or discussed the importance of liberty, the second of the three unalienable rights the authors of the Declaration of Independence included in that oft-quoted sentence.

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Rights enshrined in the Act include the right to liberty and security, the right to a fair trial, the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion and the right to freedom of expression.

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