Chapter 5, paragraph 11
On selling oneself into slavery: 'The principle of freedom cannot require that he should be free not to be free. It is not freedom to be allowed to alienate his freedom.'
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From On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Chapter 5 applies the harm principle to test cases, including trade regulation, the sale of poisons, public decency, marriage and divorce, education, and the famous prohibition on contracting into slavery.
Chapter 5, paragraph 4
Free trade defended on independent grounds, not as a corollary of the liberty principle.
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Compulsory education of children defended as a parental duty enforceable by the state.
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