Freedom can have multiple meanings, depending on who you ask. It is freedom from and freedom from. Freedom is your right to have personal freedom, to do what you want. Freedom from is your right to write, speak, and act freely without fear of threat. Before and during the Civil War, the overwhelming definition of the word freedom was economic in nature. After the Civil War this definition shifted to a more social/personal definition. Economic freedom has to do with the distribution and exchange of resources. Social/personal freedom has more to do with the independence of individual law versus the overextension of governmental or state authority. The main problem with economic freedom were the topics of work, trade and property. The idea that freedom had a lot to do with trade and work made a lot of sense at that time. The idea of ​​freedom comes from the idea that one works for the right to own one's own property, which in turn leads to power. If you had the ability to do what you wanted, especially in regards to trade and work, more opportunities opened up. For example, if th...