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    It is not the case that No government allows absolute liberty.

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    • 1.Locke himself argues that in the state of nature individuals possess perfect freedom governed only by natural law, not human legislation.
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    • 2.Constitutional governments that codify unenumerated natural rights—as in the Ninth Amendment tradition—institutionally preserve pre-political liberties the state cannot abridge.
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    • 3.A government that legally binds itself never to restrict certain freedoms thereby allows absolute liberty within those constitutionally entrenched zones.
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    • 1.Mill's harm principle holds that government legitimately restricts only liberty that harms others, leaving a sovereign domain of absolute self-regarding freedom.
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    • 2.If an absolute sphere of personal liberty exists beyond legitimate state interference, then government structurally permits absolute liberty within that protected domain.
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    • 1.Government is the establishment of society upon certain laws requiring conformity.
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    • 2.Absolute liberty is allowing anyone to do as they please.
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    • 3.The ideas of conformity to law and doing as one pleases cannot logically agree.
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