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Definition: Civil Liberty |
Civil LibertyNoun1. One's freedom to exercise one's rights as guaranteed under the laws of the country. 2. Fundamental individual right protected by law and expressed as immunity from unwarranted governmental interference. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Civil LibertySynonym: political liberty (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Civil Liberty |
| English words defined with "civil liberty": Frank-law ♦ Liberticide ♦ Writ of privilege. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "civil liberty": Covenanters. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Religious & civil liberty established in Maryland in 1649 / designed, engraved & published by James Barry, R.A. Feby. 28 1793. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. (reference) |
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William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | Meantime our Government in each dependency is upholding the traditions of civil liberty and increasing popular control which might be expected under American auspices. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
american civil liberty union | 356 |
civil liberty | 116 |
civil liberty new union york | 12 |
civil right and civil liberty | 7 |
civil liberty maine union | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-i-i-i-l-l-r-t-v-y" | |
-4 letters: civility, verticil, virilely, virility. | |
-5 letters: brevity, civilly, illicit, illitic, liberty, licitly, rilievi, vitelli. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 69 76 69 6C 4C 69 62 65 72 74 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101001 01110110 01101001 01101100 00100000 01001100 01101001 01100010 01100101 01110010 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C i v i l   L i b e r t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0069 0076 0069 006C 004C 0069 0062 0065 0072 0074 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3775887578246756871848691 |
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