Political freedom is the absence of interference with the sovereignty of an individual by the use of coercion or aggression, also known as negative liberty. Political freedom is also often described as having the power and resources to act to fulfill one's own potential, as in the definition of positive liberty.
The opposite of a free society is a totalitarian state, which highly restricts political freedom in order to regulate almost every aspect of behavior. In this sense ‘freedom’ refers solely to the relation of humans to other humans, and the only infringement on it is coercion by humans[1].
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