liberties
Rights we cherish
Liberties is the plural of liberty, referring to freedoms or rights: civil liberties, personal liberties.
The phrase take liberties means to act with inappropriate familiarity or to treat something too freely: He took liberties with the original text.
At liberty means free or unoccupied: I'm not at liberty to discuss that.
Rights individuals possess inherently
- free speechProtected verbal liberty
- freedom of assemblyRight to gather peacefully
- freedom of pressRight to publish uncensored
- individual rightsFreedoms held by persons
constitutional freedoms · human rights · political freedoms · academic freedom · artistic freedom · intellectual freedom · freedom of expression · freedom of movement
Releases from obligation
- franchisesLicensed business operations
- concessionsThings granted or yielded
- prerogativesExclusive rights or privileges
- immunitiesProtections from penalty or disease
licenses · dispensations · allowances · authorizations · charters · grants · entitlements · carte blanche
Freedom, in French
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- enfranchisementGranting citizenship rights
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
suffrage · decolonization · independence · self-determination · revolution · republic
Brazen, reckless daring
- presumptuousnessExcessive forwardness or boldness
- impertinenceRude disregard for propriety
- impudenceShameless boldness toward superiors
- forwardnessUndue familiarity or boldness
brazenness · cheek · nerve · chutzpah · temerity · familiarity · insolence · disrespect
personal freedoms
Rights individuals possess inherently
- free speechProtected verbal liberty
- freedom of assemblyRight to gather peacefully
- freedom of pressRight to publish uncensored
individual rights · constitutional freedoms · human rights · political freedoms · academic freedom · artistic freedom · intellectual freedom · freedom of expression · freedom of movement · bodily autonomy
exemptions
Releases from obligation
- franchisesLicensed business operations
- concessionsThings granted or yielded
- prerogativesExclusive rights or privileges
immunities · licenses · dispensations · allowances · authorizations · charters · grants · entitlements · carte blanche · permits
liberté
Freedom, in French
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- enfranchisementGranting citizenship rights
abolition · suffrage · decolonization · independence · self-determination · revolution · republic
audacity
Brazen, reckless daring
- presumptuousnessExcessive forwardness or boldness
- impertinenceRude disregard for propriety
- impudenceShameless boldness toward superiors
forwardness · brazenness · cheek · nerve · chutzpah · temerity · familiarity · insolence · disrespect · overstepping
- normsnorm, norms, standard, social norms, rule
- creative libertiesartistic license, poetic license, fictionalization, dramatization, embellishment
- medieval governancefeudal hierarchy, vassalage, lordship, commons, royal authority
- Gogo, white stones, stones, stone, eyes
- medieval documentscharter, royal charter, town charter, indenture, patent
- dignity and respecthuman dignity, self-worth, respect, mutual respect, self-respect
libertiesrestrictions
Limitations on action
constraints · bondage · captivity · limitations · imprisonment
libertiesarrests
Lawful detentions by police
detentions · incarcerations · deprivations · forfeitures · denials
libertiesslavery
Ownership of people
enslavement · dependences · dependencies · subjection · servitude
- take libertiesAct beyond allowed bounds
- civil libertiesRights limiting government power
- creative libertiesIntentional deviations from fact
- individual libertiesProtected personal freedoms
- American Civil Liberties UnionConstitutional rights advocacy organization
- civil liberties unionRights watchdog organization