+#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
+#: freeculture.xml:6272
+msgid "Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
+#: freeculture.xml:6273
+msgid "Commons, John R."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
+#: freeculture.xml:6243
+msgid ""
+"Some people object to this way of talking about <quote>liberty.</quote> They "
+"object because their focus when considering the constraints that exist at "
+"any particular moment are constraints imposed exclusively by the "
+"government. For instance, if a storm destroys a bridge, these people think "
+"it is meaningless to say that one's liberty has been restrained. A bridge "
+"has washed out, and it's harder to get from one place to another. To talk "
+"about this as a loss of freedom, they say, is to confuse the stuff of "
+"politics with the vagaries of ordinary life. I don't mean to deny the value "
+"in this narrower view, which depends upon the context of the inquiry. I do, "
+"however, mean to argue against any insistence that this narrower view is the "
+"only proper view of liberty. As I argued in <citetitle>Code</citetitle>, we "
+"come from a long tradition of political thought with a broader focus than "
+"the narrow question of what the government did when. John Stuart Mill "
+"defended freedom of speech, for example, from the tyranny of narrow minds, "
+"not from the fear of government prosecution; John Stuart Mill, <citetitle>On "
+"Liberty</citetitle> (Indiana: Hackett Publishing Co., 1978), 19. John "
+"R. Commons famously defended the economic freedom of labor from constraints "
+"imposed by the market; John R. Commons, <quote>The Right to Work,</quote> in "
+"Malcom Rutherford and Warren J. Samuels, eds., <citetitle>John R. Commons: "
+"Selected Essays</citetitle> (London: Routledge: 1997), 62. The Americans "
+"with Disabilities Act increases the liberty of people with physical "
+"disabilities by changing the architecture of certain public places, thereby "
+"making access to those places easier; 42 <citetitle>United States "
+"Code</citetitle>, section 12101 (2000). Each of these interventions to "
+"change existing conditions changes the liberty of a particular group. The "
+"effect of those interventions should be accounted for in order to understand "
+"the effective liberty that each of these groups might face. <placeholder "
+"type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"1\"/> "
+"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"2\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
+"id=\"3\"/>"
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