Quiz

Liberty and the Deprivation of Individual Rights

• The book discusses the deprivation of liberty by governments, both lawfully and unlawfully.
• History shows that executive power tends to deprive individuals of their liberty through arbitrary and unlawful means.
• Arrest and imprisonment are the most common ways in which liberty is taken away.
• Easy arrests and secret imprisonments are traits of despotic executive power.
• Legislative bodies produce numerous laws each year, leading to excessive regulation of everyday life.
• The passion of modern legislatures to regulate every aspect of life becomes oppressive when coupled with the authority for officers to make arrests on sight for any violation.
• The risk of being arrested on sight for breaking unknown laws makes it unsafe for individuals to leave their homes or travel.
• Arbitrary seizures and searches of persons and property have influenced past revolutions in England and the American colonies.
• A people cannot be free if the executive power can arbitrarily arrest or imprison citizens or invade their properties.
• The executive power must be limited and guided by the law of the land or due process of law.
• The Common Law is protective of the liberty of citizens and holds that interfering with another's liberty is done at one's peril.
• The Common Law also specifies how arrests should be made and the restrictions involved.