The word is "unfettered", I think.

Or, as Socrates put it, your job was to be a "gadfly on the rump of the state". Of course, Socrates got a free drink of hemlock for his pains -- but then the idiot said he deserved free meals at public expense for the rest of his life for showing idiots that they were idiots. Telling that to idiots does not generally get you rewarded.