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freedom of conscience  

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  • One might understand the concept of conscience as a judicial concept whereby, on reflection, we retrospectively make a personal judgment about what we did. The judicial conscience results from personal values or internal judgments, engaging in a subjective evaluation of our prior actions. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Freedom of Conscience]

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