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Who described freedom as the 'silence of the laws' ?
Answer: B
Freedom as the 'silence of the laws' is the phrase of Thomas Hobbes.
In chapter 21 of Leviathan (1651), Hobbes says that the liberty of subjects lies only in those things which the sovereign has passed over in silence. Where the law does not command or forbid, the subject is free.
Isaiah Berlin developed the concept of negative liberty in the twentieth century, Milton Friedman tied freedom to free markets, and J.S. Mill defended liberty through the harm principle. The particular phrase about the silence of the laws is Hobbes's.
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