Question

Explain Liberalism

Answer 1

Answer:

• Equality of law before the law, freedom for the individuals was the meaning of liberalism for the new middle class.
• For the new middle classes liberalism stood for freedom for the individual and equality of all before the law.
• Stress was laid out on the inviolability of private property by nineteenth century liberals.
• Liberalism wanted to abolish the state-imposed restrictions on the movement of capital and goods.
• Liberalism stood for representative Government through Parliament, and the Constitution.
• Liberalism stood for end of clerical privileges and end of autocracy since the French Revolution