The book The American Conception of Liberty And Government was written by author Frank Johnson Goodnow Here you can read free online of The American Conception of Liberty And Government book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The American Conception of Liberty And Government a good or bad book?
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It is, however, very doubtful whether our funda- mental ideas have been subject to great modification in many directions in which the public health and safety or morals have not been directly jinvolved. We have been willing to hold those rights which we are inclined still to regard as natural and inherent subject to the limitations made necessary by considerations of public morality and safety and to a certain extent of public convenience which often is closely connected with the public safety.... But we have not as yet been convinced of the desirability of the curtailment of our sphere of individual freedom of action in the interest of anything so general as social efficiency. We 1 * still cling to the idea that our rights are more or less natural rights and have not been granted to us by the social [25] group to which we belong. Our legislation, which re- flects our political philosophy, does not require of us much that elsewhere is regarded as absolutely necessary to the development of the highest degree of social efficiency.
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