Konarski was the first who ventured publicly to assail the liberum veto.
This was only possible under the fiction of a liberum arbitrium indifferentiae, and only necessary on account of the Jewish fundamental dogma, in which that doctrine had here to be implanted.
Domesday, the expression liberum tenementum was introduced to designate land held by a freeman by a free tenure.
This was the so-called "liberum veto" so fatal to Poland.
The villain fails in his assize and there has been no manumission, still it seems admitted that in this case the villain has acquired liberum tenementum by the lord's act.
He seriously puts forward the liberumarbitrium indifferentiae (a free and indifferent choice), giving as its foundation the most trivial and frivolous reasons.
But the Diets, the Pospolite, the Liberum Veto, and all the other turbulent privileges of the Polish nobles, continued abolished, as they had been under the Prussian government.
The liberum veto was abolished; confederations were prohibited as inconsistent with the genius of the constitution; and it was provided, that, after every quarter of a century, the constitution should be revised and amended.
Indeed, the days of the liberum veto were necessarily the days of legalized insurrection.
Liberum arbitrium indifferentiae under the name of moral freedom is a charming doll for professors of philosophy to dandle; and we must leave it to those intelligent, honourable and upright gentlemen.
Augustine there when he speaks of “servum potius quam liberum arbitrium” does so in another sense, though Luther saw fit to borrow the expression for the title of his own later work of 1525: “De servo arbitrio.
In his marginal notes on Peter Lombard (written 1509) Luther had rightly said: “Liberum arbitrium damnatur quia .
The consequence of the liberum veto,[67] pushed to excess, is paralysis of power or anarchy.
The liberum veto in Poland was the right of each representative to oppose the veto of the laws which were voted unanimously.
In the course of the seventeenth century the principle of the liberum veto had been so far extended as to recognize the lawful right of any one of the ten thousand noblemen of Poland to refuse to obey a law which he had not approved.
A Diet, convoked under the forms of a confederacy, in order to avoid dissolution by the liberum veto, was obliged to sanction this partition.
This law of the liberum veto, and the elective nature of the royal office, offered countless opportunities for foreign nations to interfere in the affairs of the Commonwealth.
A diet held by a confederacy was not subject to the liberum veto, but adopted decisions by a majority vote.
Just as the liberty of the Shlakhta is impossible without the liberum veto, so is the Jewish matza impossible without Christian blood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "liberum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
