02 POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC LIBERALISM


  1. Criticism of the Old Regime

  1. Ideas of Political Liberalism

Serfs and Subjects

  1. Ideas of Economic Liberalism

Equality before law

Individual rights

Alternative

Division of powers

Sovereignty

abolition of

fiefdoms

manorialism

privileges

estate system

freedoms

right to

liberty

property

life

press

printing

education

assembly

separation

Montesquieu

legislative

judicial

executive

Church

state

suffrage

representative political powers

govern themselfs

Liberals criticised

Individual rights

Citizens

individual

rights

Restrictions

Economic liberalism

freedom of individual

The Wealth of Nations (1776)

private property

free market

price controls and commercial regulations

liberals

mercantilism and physiocracy

supply and demand

absolute monarchs and Church

survival of manorialism in the fiefdoms

survival of feudal economy

inequality of estate system

Serfs

Subjects

Sovereignty on the king

lived in manorialism

serve a lord

loyalty

kingdom

king

important contribution

more radical criticisms

moderate the power of kings

Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau

opposition

social groups

absence of equality

privileged corporations

price controls

criticised fiefdoms

power of monarchies

censored criticism

privileges of the Church

inhabitants work for their lords

have to disappear

pay taxes

be subject to their laws

Serfs and Subjects

taxes

Montesquieu

physiocracy