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Our legal system does not grant adults a right to liberty, because they already possess that right; it only revokes the right to liberty (for certain offenses) or restores it (if the deprivation did not conform to due process).
Our legal system does not grant adults a right to liberty, because they already possess that right; it only revokes the right to liberty (for certain offenses) or restores it (if the deprivation did not conform to due process).
Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern
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- Thomas Szasz
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- Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Thomas Szasz: life dates 1920 to 2012. Wikidata Q66162, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66162 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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