After outlining a conception of sociopolitical freedom, this article explores how people can be free in connection with various matters over which they have no control or choice. The discussions culminate in several queries about an aspect of the rational-choice approach to the analysis of socio-political liberty. Because that rigorous approach has deservedly become influential in recent years among political and legal philosophers, the doubts expressed here about the applicability of one of its central axioms are potentially of far-reaching importance.
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