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REVOLUTIONS AND THE RESTORATION OF ABSOLUTISM (POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC…
REVOLUTIONS AND THE RESTORATION OF ABSOLUTISM (POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC LIBERALISM)
Iker Marcé
CRITICISM OF THE OLD REGIME
Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau made critics that led to liberalism.
they criticised different aspects
The survival of a feudal economy
liberals criticised obstacles to development
The power of absolute monarchs and the Church
The power of monarchies and the privileges of the Church and their ability to influence laws limited individual rights and freedom of expression.
The survival of manorialism in the fiefdoms of the nobility and the Church
inhabitants of fiefdoms had to work for their lords, pay taxes and be subject to their laws.
The legal inequality of the estate system.
no equality between people before the law
divided into social groups
IDEAS OF POLITICAL LIBERALISM
Liberal ideology tried to be an alternative social and political order to the existing one
characteristics
The existence of unalienable individual rights
These rights cannot be taken away. Meant that human beings naturally possessed the right to life, liberty and property.
It also implied the establishment of freedoms the right to inform, publish, teach and assemble.
The division of powers
separation between the Church and the state
Equality of people before the law
Everyone should be subject to the same laws regardless of their social origin.
Sovereignty resides in the nation
proposed a representative political power
IDEAS OF ECONOMIC LIBERALISM
defended the freedom of the individual to produce and buy within a free market and own private property
the role of public power should be reduced to mediating in economic relationships
The state should not intervene because the law of supply and demand would determine what to produce, how much to produce and at what price.
