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5. Natural liberty is the right which nature gives to all mankind, of diposing of their persons and property after the manner they judge most consonant to their happiness, on condition of their acting within the limits of the law of nature, and that they do not in any way abuse it to the prejudice of other men. Burlamaqui, c. 3, s. 15; 1 Bl. Com. 125.

Life, liberty and happiness, it is all connected. Should we have the same right to proclaim what the signers of the Declaration of Independence proclaimed for themselves?
Civil liberty is constrained by positive law i.e. the will of the possessors of political power.
Natural liberty does not exist within a civil society.