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But if we interpret the harm principle this way, then Mill is even further from a libertarian view, at least if libertarianism is understood as the idea that the only legitimate limit on individual liberty is to prevent that individual from acting in ways that harm others.
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What are the legitimate limits to copyright?
But then the next question: given all of those very real and legitimate limits on my power, what am I able to do?
More important than the discussion of these basic principles are the authors' comments on nonlegitimate and legitimate limits to professional risk.
Most advocates of feminist science argue, in this vein, that scientific inquiries informed by feminist values are based on legitimate, generative limiting biases.
In its brief, Samsung contends Apple is using patents to try to "stifle legitimate competition and limit consumer choice to maintain its historically exorbitant profits".
Closed material procedures could be ordered to limit legitimate protests, to hamper inquiries by journalists, to prevent people from recovering property seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act and to stop wounded servicemen from suing the Ministry of Defence for faulty equipment.
There are legitimate reasons to limit taxation powers to national borders.
By the mid-17th century, some church leaders even admitted couples might have legitimate reasons to limit family size to better provide for the children they already had.
Since a 1976 case called Buckley v. Valeo -- sometimes called the "original sin" of campaign finance law -- the justices have said that we are not allowed to fight this problem directly because leveling the playing field between wealthy donors and the rest of us is not a legitimate reason to limit big money.
The corporate form was invented for the legitimate purposes of limiting personal liability and facilitating business, not hiding ownership.
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