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In this paper I propose to examine and compare certain contemporary American conceptions of the central idea in American political thought—freedom and its synonym, liberty. I should like to begin by recalling to your minds the Puritan Father John Winthrop's twofold definition of liberty as: 1) natural liberty , “the liberty to do as one lists”; 2) moral liberty , the liberty to do “only that which is good, just and honest.”
A. J. Beitzinger (Mon,) studied this question.