So there is not an inherent trade-off between government and freedom. Much of what government does is not coercive at all, and expansion of government programs is not going to lead us down a slippery slope to totalitarian rule. But all of this is not to deny that some government activities do curtail our freedom.
factitive. adj. 1. (Grammar) grammar denoting a verb taking a direct object as well as a noun in apposition, as for example elect in they elected John president, where John is the direct object and president is the complement.
Conjunction is a truth-functional connective similar to and in English and is represented in symbolic logic with the dot  . Ordinary language definition of the dot: a connective forming compound propositions which are true only in the case when both of the propositions joined by it are true.