Golden Liberty (Latin: Aurea Libertas; Polish: Złota Wolność), sometimes referred to as Golden Freedoms, Nobles' Democracy or Nobles' Commonwealth (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Szlachecka or Złota Wolność, Latin: áurea libertas) refers to a unique aristocratic political system in the Kingdom of Poland and later, after the Union of Lublin (1569), in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
ID cards and detention without trial get plenty of coverage – but many other recent laws have ramifications for individual freedom. As the Convention on Modern Liberty approaches, Comment is free contributors look at how they could affect everyone – from infants to football fans, NHS patients and anti-Heathrow protesters