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political and economic liberalism - Coggle Diagram
political and economic liberalism
critism of the old regime
reforms to guarantee individual rights and moderate the power of kings
the legal inequality of the state system
Society was divided into privileged social groups and the rest of the population, the commoners or third estate .
the survival of a feudal economy
Liberals criticized obstacles to development
the power of absolute monarchs and the church
Monarchs and clerics censored criticism and the development of new ideas.
the survival of manorialism in the fiefdoms of the nobility and the church
The inhabitants of the feudals had to work for the lords and pay taxes
mercantilism and physiocracy
during de las centuries of the moder age
mercatilism
He said that the more precious metals the kingdom had, the more powerful it was.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert was the main theorist of mercantilism
physiocracy
Agriculture was the main source to get rich
François Quesnay was the main theorist of physiocracy.
serfs and subjects
Society in the Ancien Régime consisted of
serfs
feudals hired to sevir a lord
subjects
All regardless of their class should obey their king.
ideas of the political liberalism
He was criticized for his ideas.
Equality of people before the law
Everyone including the king must have the same laws, regardless of social status.
The existence of unalienable individual rights
thanks to the work of John Locke, human beings possessed the right to life, liberty, and society.
The division of powers
According to Montesquieu's the liberals argued the division between powers the executive, exercised by the government, the legislative, exercised by parliament, and the judicial, in the hands of the courts.
separate church and state
sovereignty resides in the nation