It has arrogated to itself the privilege of defining what is right and wrong, good and evil. When God is not acknowledged, man becomes the sovereign. When man becomes the definer of liberty, liberty is lost. Thus we find that we have lost what our forefathers called liberty. Further, we do not have liberty to use our property in lawful ways.
Environmental laws limit the freedom of use as well.
We can kill our unborn children, but are forbidden to cut down a tree on our own property without a permit. The Federal Government, as if it were God, asserts a preeminent claim on the earth and the fullness thereof. One peculiarly blatant expression of this is eminent domain. Whatever and whenever the Government desires the use of your land, it claims the prerogative to do it. God destroyed Ahab for doing what the modern Government does every year.