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What does it mean?
Laws alone cannot grant freedom; people must free the law itself.
In plain terms
People must make laws free, not the other way round.
What can you take from it?
Freedom comes from reforming law.

Where it applies

  • activism
  • policy reform

Putting it to work

  • advocate for legal change
  • participate in civic dialogue

Questions to consider

  • What does a 'free law' look like?

Another view

Legal systems can be resistant to change.

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