 Civil liberty, for Price, concerns the autonomy of a community or state to make its own laws, free from outside interference. Important as this is, especially in the context of the American Revolution, it raises the question of what constitutes a distinct community or society. Does any dissident group constitute a community with the right to secede? This is an issue that has occasioned much violence and bloodshed, including the secession of the Southern States in 1860 and, in our own day, Scottish, Basque, and Irish independence. The omission of a discussion of this seriously weakens his political philosophy.