In its best and most full sense, liberty is about allowing men in a society to implement that set of laws that is most conducive to freedom and prosperity.
Allowing men to be laws unto themselves may be the most libertarian approach, but it is also the most Hobbesian. It is anarchy or tribalism by any other name.
That society in which the citizens are allowed free access to implement and change laws by participating in government is the best of all and most exalts the rationality of the Creator.
Hitler had his, he said.
Stalin had his, he said.
Cuirry has his, he says.
Common law presupposes neighborhood theocracy. Common law societies presuppose Christian pulpits, and a biblically literate citizenry. Given these preconditions, a randomly selected "twelve good men and true" can enforce godly standards of behavior and condign restitution. It's called the jury system. The twelve jurors, like the twelve patriarchs and the twelve apostles, are the tangible foundation of a godly social order.