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Freedom
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Relax, you are free to think, no partisan bias, this is a political party-free zone....
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Introduction
E-mancipation is dedicated to bringing about a wider degree of individual freedom for the people in the United Kingdom. The concept of individual freedom as the central value of a national constitution was proposed by Englishmen during the seventeenth century; their constitutional pamphlets have never been bettered. Much of the United States Constitution was based on these writings which circulated in the streets of London 150 years before the American Revolution.
The United Kingdom's political system
The central problem facing the United Kingdom's political system is its very poor ability to take into account the preferences of the electorate. Preferences are shaped by people's own free expression and the degree to which governance upholds such preferences reflects the degree to which individual freedom is upheld.
in a speech on 27 September 1869, Charles Dickens stated, "My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in The People governed, is, on the whole, illimitable".
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Evidence on the current state of affairs
A recent publication1 identified some 58 significant constraints imposed by the political system and which prevent the reflection of preferences in national decision-making.
| Activity | Significant constraints |
| General election | 20 |
| Parliament | 16 |
| House of Lords | 2 |
| Application of the Law | 10 |
| Political party funding | 2 |
| Parliamentary reform | 1 |
| Sovereignty | 7 |
| Whole process | 58 |
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These are all specific instances of where individual free expression is severely curtailed or even prevented.
Analysis
It is notable that the most significant levels of corruption of expression of the free will of the people occurs in the two processes most often held out as being the essence of democratic process. 62% of the major constraints on the free expression of the population as essential inputs to decision-making arise from the way in which general elections and Parliament are managed. On the other hand, contrary to the commonly expressed opinion of British political parties, the House of Lords accounts for 0.3% of these constraints.
Sovereignty
The most significant overall threat to the ability of the people to defend their individual freedom lies in the area of sovereignty. Broadly speaking this relates to increasing subservience of British Law to European Law against a background of increasing decadence in the European legal institutions which are becoming increasingly politicized.
1 "The Briton's Quest for Freedom - Our unifinished journey", McNeill, H.W., Hambrook Publishing Company, 2007, ISBN: 9780907833017
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