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Blackstone, whose Commentaries on the Common Law are so exact in definition, uses in that classic of the law the terms ‘civil liberty’ and ‘political liberty’ everywhere as synonymous.
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Here, Sumner references Blackstone to argue that civil and political liberties are synonymous, supporting his legal perspective.
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