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POLITICAL LIBERALISM liberaalismo - Coggle Diagram
POLITICAL LIBERALISM 
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POLITICAL LIBERALISM (GREAT BRITAIN)
Characteristics:
This movement defends individual freedoms and rights of thought, conscience and association.
Supports the legal equality of all citizens before the law.
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There is control of public management, through publicity and freedom of speech and opinion
The ordering of the political regime, with a fundamental law (constitution) that is above the king and embodies national sovereignty.
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What is: Was a movement of high projection that defended as an essential idea the development of personal, individual freedom, as a way of achieving the progress of society, was originated by the bourgeois class, during the 19th century, in parallel with the industrial revolution
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Characteristics
Arises in the second half of the nineteenth century as a product of the development of the WHIGS (church party), who promoted the predominance of parliament over the crown.
During the years 1833 and 1855, the liberal party was modernized with the reform of acts, which made the electoral system increase, people participate more and education became compulsory from the age of six and free from 1881.
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Constituted by less homogeneous individuals, meeting the nobles, merchants, financiers, Protestants and bishops
In the reform of 1867, it originated from the pressure of socioeconomic changes with an enriched bourgeoisie and an organized working class that fought for reforms.
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*POLITICAL REFORMS (XIX CENTURY)** Great Britain
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHERS OF LIBERALISM
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Every person has a rigt and duties, government should protect those rigths
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OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY: Government should protect human rights because humans (individuals) could not protect them on their own.
LIBERTY: If the government don´t protect the human rights, people should seek for other ruler
Basic rights: right of education, having a property, health
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He was part of the parliament, and he worked for the ones that had no voice
UTILITARIANISM: We live in a world were people do terrible things, the society can do something to make things better, even if our hands will be dirty
Act utilitarianism:"Choose the action that produces the greatest good for the greatest number, benefiting the society"(Crash Course)
Rule utilitarianism: "living by the rules, are likely to lead to the greatest good for the greates number". (Crash Course)
FREEDOM: Opposite to tyranny, Mill studied Marx´s ideas (socialist doctrine)
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You have to vote (for the appropiate ruler), like this you have the right of voting, but education can rise on the public.(reading)
PROBLEM: The people who were in power, were not doing what they had to do, (inaction).
SUFFRAGE:In 1832 reform, 5 years before the coronation of Queen Victoria, the electoral body was expanded to 812 thousand where 80% of Ireland did not have the right to vote, this reform favored the manufacturing, commercial and urban elites. Granting benches in the chambers of the commons to the great cities that arose during the industrial revolution.
House of commons, controlled by the nobels
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Social and economic changes: (1833)Conditions were better in factories (Factory act), improving them for children taking into account the working hours and education; slavery was abolish.
(1848): CHARIST MOVEMENT: men suffrage, memebers of the parliament, ans secret ballot.
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Woman were fighting for the right to vote, the right to vote for woman (suffragettes) appeared after the World War I.
There was a Liberal Prime Minister (1905), in those years there was health insurance, unemployment insurance, old age pensions and raised taxes.
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