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    People subject to arbitrary power are less free in the negative sense even if they do not actually suffer interference.

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    • 1.The extent of negative freedom depends in part on the probability of being constrained from performing future acts or act-combinations.
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    • 2.People subject to arbitrary power always face a greater probability of suffering constraints than people not subject to arbitrary power, as an empirical matter.
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    • 1.Negative freedom is properly defined as the actual absence of interference by other agents, not the probabilistic risk of future interference.
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    • 2.Conflating the probability of constraint with constraint itself smuggles a consequentialist metric into a concept that Berlin explicitly defined in terms of present, actual barriers.
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    • 3.A person subject to arbitrary power who is never interfered with is, by the strict Berlinian definition, fully free in the negative sense during that unimpeded interval.
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    • 1.Pettit's republican notion of domination-as-unfreedom is a distinct third concept of liberty, not a refinement of negative liberty as Berlin defined it.
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    • 2.Treating arbitrary power as a reducer of negative freedom collapses the analytically important distinction between negative liberty and republican non-domination, obscuring rather than illuminating the conceptual landscape.
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    It remains to be seen, however, whether the republican concept of freedom is ultimately distinguishable from the negative concept, or whether republican writers on freedom have not simply provided good arguments to the effect that negative freedom is best promoted, on balance and over time, through certain kinds of political institutions rather than others. While there is no necessary connection between negative liberty and democratic government, there may nevertheless be a strong empirical corr
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