Esmaeel1 Freedom, a word which we hear on everyday basis, a word which is being used in many different part of our everyday life. There are many different kind of freedoms (i.e. freedom of speech, freedom from slavery, political freedom, freedom from borders, spiritual freedom, freedom of information, self-freedom and financial freedom.) Each individual or certain group of individuals look at the concept of freedom in a totally different way. Hadenius suggests that “Each Individual or certain group of individual look at the concept of freedom in a totally different way”. For some of us, a freedom could be freedom based on going anywhere we want to go at any time or the freedom to do anything we would like at any given time. This essay will try to explore the idea behind freedom and how it affects our daily life. I will also look at the freedom in a very literate way and try to describe what it is and how it has developed over the past few years by the help of examples from different part of the world (Hadenius 27).In order to explore the concept freedom, let me describe the literate meaning of the word freedom, let me describe the literate meaning of the word freedom. Pam Seabright has tried to define in one of two ways: “The power to control action without limitation,” and “[t]he absence of restraint regarding choice or action” (12). Seabright declares that “democracy is the true kind of freedom”. There are various countries in the world now who have democracy such as, Denmark, Dominican Republic ,El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy and many others. I will use an example from United States of America. The current democratic system in US embraces its several commitments in a way which encourages a contented and comfortable society. In other words, due to freedom (democracy), once a government is elected it made sure that normal citizens can carry on with their everyday life knowing that government is working in the background to make sure everything works smoothly (13).I am going to try and look at some examples which shows us what freedom means to different people at different time. Schubert emphasizes “freedom of speech and freedom of press” by mentioning a very famous case, there was a very famous case which involved John Peter Zenger who was a publisher for New York Weekly Journal, back in 1735. Zenger was among the first journalist who was sued after he published some serious political stories about the officials at the time. This was the time when there was no such thing as Freedom of speech of freedom of press. This case eventually lead the establishment to the right of the press to criticize public and political officials. Thereafter, in 1791, the First Amendment was recognised. This Amendment is the foundation of the freedom of speech and specially freedom of press in United States (4). There are more than 200 independent nations in our planet, and government in ...