5 sentences with 'liberties'
Example sentences and phrases with the word liberties and other words derived from it.
• « All subjects of the British crown knew that they had liberties under the constitution. The Sugar Act suggested that some in Parliament were striving to deprive them of what made them uniquely British. »
• « Patriots believed that the British monarchy under George III had become corrupt and that the king had become a tyrant who did not care about the traditional liberties of the members of the British Empire. Disaffection with the monarchy explains why a republic seemed a better alternative for the revolutionaries. »
• « Many Americans opposed the Constitution of 1787 because they viewed it as a dangerous concentration of centralised power that threatened the rights and liberties of ordinary American citizens. »
• « With their emphasis on personal liberties, the whiskey rebels aligned themselves with the Democratic-Republican Party. They saw the tax as part of a broader Federalist plot to destroy their republican liberty and, in its most extreme interpretation, turn America into a monarchy. »
• « Democratic-Republicans argued that the laws were evidence of the Federalists' intent to crush individual liberties and, by expanding the powers of the national government, to crush states' rights. »