wrote:  "Christopher D. Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Check out the distinction between "positive" and "negative" liberty.
> Under "positive" liberty (which the US is generally understoof to
> endorse) one has the right to do anything that isn't specifically
> proscribed. Isaiah Berlin wrote a famous essay about it decade ago. I
> think you'll find it in the "Berlin Reader."
>

Berlin's analysis might point to the existence of external constraints on
liberty (positive liberty) but has little to say about the right of a group
exalted by consensus to impose financial (or any other) sanctions as an
implementation of those constraints.

Bill Scott


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