In one sense, the Constitution's federal structure helps to protect negative liberty.

Each Court holding helps to some degree to protect negative liberty - in the narrow sense described.

Negative liberty is freedom from interference by other people.

He also called it "a charter of negative liberties."

Traditional, "modern," negative liberty - the individual's freedom from government restriction - remains important.

He made a distinction between positive liberty and negative liberty.

For Halsema negative liberty is the freedom of citizens from government interference.

They believed in negative liberty which constitutes the absence of external constraints.

The concept of negative liberty has several noteworthy aspects.

This concept reflects the idea of negative liberty.

It is oriented less toward negative liberty (How can I get the government off my back?)

Somebody needs to tell Mr Glover the difference between positive and negative liberty.

He was no stranger to negative liberty.

The Civil War amendments later expanded and more fully secured these basic negative liberties.

Unlike positive and negative liberty, mutual liberty encompasses all citizens.

One has negative liberty to the extent that actions are available to one in this negative sense.

They believed that securing "the right of the people to participate in the government" was the best way to secure the negative liberty of individuals.

Restrictions on negative liberty are imposed by a person, not by natural causes or incapacity.

This section outlines specific examples of governmental types which follow the concept of negative liberty.

The distinction is similar to the distinction made in political science between negative liberty and positive liberty.

Negative liberty, defined by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, is:

Like Urukagina, most ancient freedoms focused on negative liberty, protecting the less fortunate from harassment or imposition.

The final programme focussed on the concepts of positive and negative liberty introduced in the 1950s by Isaiah Berlin.

For Berlin, negative liberty represents a different, and sometimes contradictory, understanding of the concept of liberty, which needs to be carefully distinguished.

The capabilities approach is really a theory of freedom as positive action (in contrast to negative liberty), though, oddly, Nussbaum rarely uses the word "freedom."