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Inventing Freedom

  • Writer: Michael Connolly
    Michael Connolly
  • Sep 18
  • 1 min read

Updated: Oct 31

Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World by Daniel Hannan, Broadside Books Reprint, 2013. 


Great Britain

The author asserts that the British and the lands they colonized, most importantly America, are the main promoters of freedom. The author calls this the Anglosphere.


Characteristics of the Anglosphere Culture

  • The rule of law

  • Equality before the law

  • Sanctity of contract

  • Private property rights

  • Limited government

  • Representative government

  • Jury trials

  • Personal liberty

  • Freedom of the press

  • Freedom of religion

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