The law of persons in the light of the Constitution

Abstract

"One of the most important aspects of the relationship between the state and the individual concerns, the extent to which personal freedom is curtailed in the interests of the security of the state, whether in its institutional aspects or viewed as a collection of individuals." Giorgio Del Vecchio says "Before law, or outside law, there is no true liberty, because the simple possibility of acting, to which any impediment can be opposed is not liberty but an arbitrariness and a thing of no value”. Thus the liberty of one subject of law has to be regulated, or, one may say infringed so as not to infringe upon the liberty of the other subjects of law who have an equal right to their enjoyment, whether individually or collectively, as a state, in the words of Cicero "LEGVM OMNES SERVI SVMVS VT LIBERI ESSE POSSIMVS”.