James Fitzjames Stephen: The man behind Pakistan’s sedition law

“Power precedes liberty — …liberty, from the very nature of things, is dependent upon power….” Thus wrote the English lawyer, judge, writer and philosopher, James Fitzjames Stephen in his book ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’ (1873). Stephen, a defender of old English liberalism, was a proponent of the concept of ‘Ordered Liberty’. He was first a friend […]