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      "protect them, through courts and institutions",
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      "Positive and negative liberty are debated concepts"
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      "Specific freedoms such as assembly or association"
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      "freedom of religion and from religion",
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      "personal and sexual freedom"
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        "Help a person find lawful channels to defend their rights."
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        "Misstate a person's legal rights.",
        "Profile people for exercising freedoms of speech, assembly or association.",
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        "Freedoms must be balanced against others' rights."
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        "Dissidents and journalists",
        "Minorities"
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                    "text": "Which conception of liberty is used?",
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                  {
                    "text": "Which thinkers are associated with it?",
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                    "text": "Which specific freedom is at issue?",
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                  {
                    "text": "Which instrument protects it?",
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                    "text": "Which law protects this freedom here?",
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                  {
                    "text": "Which court enforces it?",
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                    "text": "Is the restriction proportionate?",
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                "questions": [
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                    "text": "What does someone need to know to exercise this freedom lawfully?",
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                  {
                    "text": "Are notifications required, such as for assemblies?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
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            "id": "redress",
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            "description": "When rights are violated.",
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              {
                "id": "redress-finding",
                "name": "Redress",
                "description": "Redress routes.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How can a violation be challenged?",
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                  {
                    "text": "Which organisations can help?",
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                    "text": "Which rights conflict here?",
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                "id": "neutrality-finding",
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                  {
                    "text": "Is the description balanced?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Are views attributed?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
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  "openQuestions": [
    "Should specific freedoms be separate entries?",
    "How should competing freedoms be represented?",
    "The registry parent aptitude seems wrong; should the classification be corrected?"
  ],
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    "layers": 8,
    "findings": 8,
    "questions": 16
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