The English Oxford dictionary defines freedom as “The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants.” This definition is partially true while these are the qualities of freedom, we can only have these rights as long as we don’t interfere with another's freedom. So, what isn’t freedom? A quote from a journalist of the Daily Beast, P.J. O’Rourke, answers this pretty well.
Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights -- the "right" to education, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery -- hay and a barn for human cattle. There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
Total freedom is to do anything whenever you want, but to achieve this, you have to be willing to take the consequences that are given. So, what’s your definition of freedom? Through many fights,
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Representatives of the people are a big part in preserving freedom, this gives the people a voice in choosing what they need to succeed. For a working society that still has freedom, it needs representatives, just like in Abigail Adams letters to her husband John, he acted like a representative for the women so they were noticed and taken into account. Abigail had written these letters to John about what was happening in her daily life and the status of the town; she had asked John to “remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors,” this was one of the first steps in womans freedom. Without representatives of the people there would be no freedom to establish or