title: Liberty, Equality, Power: Enhanced Concise Edition (Available Titles CengageNOW)
author: John M. Murrin
description: John M. Murrin studies American colonial and revolutionary history and the early republic. He has edited one multivolume series and five books, including two essay collections?COLONIAL AMERICA: ESSAYS IN POLITICS AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, Sixth Edition (2010), and SAINTS AND REVOLUTIONARIES: ESSAYS IN EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY (1984). His own essays cover topics ranging from ethnic tensions, the early history of trial by jury, the emergence of the legal profession, the Salem witch trials, and the political culture of the colonies and the new nation to the rise of professional baseball and college football in the nineteenth century. He served as president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic in 1998?1999.
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  On Liberty
  
  
    
    
  [CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY  
    
  ](ON%20LIBERTY_split_001.html#filepos1552)[CHAPTER II. OF THE LIBERTY OF
  THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION  
    
  ](ON%20LIBERTY_split_002.html#filepos36193)[CHAPTER III. ON INDIVIDUALITY, AS
  ONE OF THE ELEMENTS OF WELLBEING  
    
  ](ON%20LIBERTY_split_002.html#filepos136498)[CHAPTER IV. OF THE LIMITS TO THE
  AUTHORITY OF SOCIETY OVER THE INDIVIDUAL  
    
  ](ON%20LIBERTY_split_002.html#filepos185846)[CHAPTER V. APPLICATIONS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # ON LIBERTY
  
  
  ### JOHN STUART MILL
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so
  
  
  unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical
  
  
  Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the
  
  
  power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the
  
  
  individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in
  
  
  