is the constitutive value of each person, the foundation of their duties and rights, according to which each person can decide autonomously on the essential issues of his life. It is then, the freedom of each person to act according to their will or convictions, and whose limit is found in respect for the freedom and rights of other people, and what is established in the laws.Â
It is considered that there is individual freedom when people can act without coercion and oppression by other subjects.
Therefore, it is said that an individual is free or acts free when he is not in a prisoner condition, subject to the orders of others or under duress. In political law, its highest expression in the modern age has been individual rights or first generation rights within the framework of the principle of legality, originally proposed by classical liberalism.
Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that the heavens gave men; The treasures that the land and the sea hold cannot be equaled with it: for freedom, as well as for honor, one can and must venture life.
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