Political Science · Political Theory
Who defined 'Liberty as the opposite of over government'?
ASeeley ✓ Correct
BJ.S. Mill
CGramsci
DMarx
Correct answer: (A) Seeley — J.R. Seeley defined liberty as the opposite of over-government, so the answer is Seeley.
Explanation
★J.R. Seeley defined liberty as the opposite of over-government, so the answer is Seeley.
★His phrase ties liberty directly to a limited, restrained scope of state action.
★Where government oversteps and over-regulates life, liberty correspondingly shrinks.
★This is a classic statement of the negative, individualist conception of freedom.
★It treats freedom as the absence of needless interference by the state in private life.
★Mill defended liberty too but through his harm principle and the self-regarding sphere.
★Gramsci and Marx analysed power and class, offering a very different account of freedom.
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