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2.2 POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC LIBERALISM - Coggle Diagram
2.2 POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC LIBERALISM
1 CRITICISM OF THE OLD REGIME
The liberals criticised different aspects.
The legal inequality of the estate system
The Society was divided into 2 social groups
The privilege class
Nobles and clerics
Third class or commoners
peasants, artisans, shopkeepers, merchants, professionals such as notaries and doctors
The power of absolute monarchs and the Church
The power of monarchies and the privileges of the Church
Limited individual rights and freedom of expression
The survival of a feudal economy.
There was great commercial and market growth during previous centuries
The liberals criticised obstacles to development caused by
Guilds
Fiefdoms
Goods that could not be sold
2 IDEAS OF POLITICAL LIBERALISM
The existence of unalienable individual rights
These rights cannot be taken away
It also implied the establishment of freedoms regarding issues and areas
Such as the press, printing, education and assembly
The division of powers.
The liberals argued that power had to be moderated by individual rights and by division into three powers:
Executive
Judicial
Legislative
Equality of people before the law.
The abolition of all privileges, fiefdoms, manorialism and the whole estate system.
Sovereignty resides in the nation.
The liberals advocated that the people should govern themselves through their representatives in Parliament.
Types of Liberals
Radical Liberals
Were democrats, and advocated universal suffrage.
they understood the suppression of the role of religion in any area of public civil life
Moderate Liberals
Limited the right of election through censitary suffrage
Were monarchists and therefore wanted to keep the king, and official religion
