On Liberty by John Stuart Mill6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The first step was easily obtained, but the second step was met with more opposition by governments. This attempt to ensure liberty involved two steps: 1) obtaining political rights that were safe against all forms of tyranny and 2) implementing the safeguard of community consent in the form of a mandate or body that would guard against an abuse of power. As time elapsed however, the citizens began to want an limit to be placed on the power of the government in order to achieve their liberty. In earlier times, liberty was utilized as protection against political tyranny because rulers were endowed with the power to both suppress the rights of would-be aggressors and their own citizenry. Mill begins by explaining that his purpose in this essay is to discuss the maximum power that society can exercise over an individual and study the struggle between Liberty and Authority. ![]()
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