As it happens the English lady is a good Catholic herself, but of more liberal political persuasion.

* Americans for Democratic Action, American liberal political advocacy organization

King Alexander tried to reconcile political parties by unveiling a liberal constitution of his own initiative, introducing for the first time in the constitutional history of Serbia the system of two chambers ( skupština and senate ).

The Australian Democrats is an Australian political party espousing a socially liberal ideology.

Due, however, to their satiric and overtly liberal political inclinations, both operas were seen as unsuitable for public performance in the politically reactive cultures of Leopold II and later Francis II.

Also as Salieri aged he moved slowly away from his more liberal political stances as he saw the enlightened reform of Joseph II's reign, and the hoped for reforms of the French revolution, replaced with more radical revolutionary ideas.

* New Alliance ( Nuova Alleanza ), formerly called Right and Freedom ( Destra e Libertà ), headed by Altero Matteoli and Adolfo Urso, was formed by the staunchest supporters of Gianfranco Fini within the party and supported a liberal political agenda.

The political terms of " modern ", " progressive " or " new " Liberalism began to appear in the mid to late 1880s and became increasingly common to denote the tendency in the Liberal Party to favour an increased role for the state as more important than the classical liberal stress on self-help and freedom of choice.

Lancaster was a vocal supporter of liberal political causes, and frequently spoke out in support of racial minorities, including at the March on Washington in 1963.

The political camp became divided by supporters of O ' Higgins, Carrera, liberal Pipiolos and conservative Pelucones, being the two last the main movements that prevailed and absorbed the rest.

The Spanish Constitution of 1812, and the legislation passed by the Cádiz Cortes after it was set up in 1808, created a number of liberal political and commercial policies, which were welcomed in Cuba but also curtailed a number of previous political and commercial liberties.

In other countries where liberal conservative movements have entered the political mainstream, such as Italy and Spain, the terms liberal and conservative may be synonymous.

Moser and Catley explain, " In America, ' liberal ' means left-of-center, and it is a pejorative term when used by conservatives in adversarial political debate.

While the term " liberal " had been used to describe all political forces in Colombia, the conservatives began describing themselves as " conservative liberals " and their opponents as " red liberals ".

The term has been used by liberal and left-leaning critics, but also some economic libertarian critics and other political observers across the political spectrum.

A sudden transition to democracy, these experts contend, would result in the economic and political upheaval that occurred in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, and that by focusing on economic growth, China is setting the stage for a more gradual but sustainable transition to a more politically liberal system.

The term " democracy " is sometimes used as shorthand for liberal democracy, which is a variant of representative democracy that may include elements such as political pluralism ; equality before the law ; the right to petition elected officials for redress of grievances ; due process ; civil liberties ; human rights ; and elements of civil society outside the government.

Frequently political in nature, Doonesbury features characters representing a range of affiliations, but the cartoon is noted for a liberal viewpoint.

As more and more of its demands were met during the 1990s – such as the direct popular election of Taiwan's president and all representatives in its Legislative Yuan, and open discussion of Taiwan's repressive past as represented in the 2-28 Incident and its long martial law aftermath – a greater variety of views could be advocated in the more liberal political atmosphere.

Finally, in 1962 Haile Selassie pressured the Eritrean Assembly to abolish the Federation and join the Imperial Ethiopian fold, much to the dismay of those in Eritrea who favored a more liberal political order.

The European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party is a European political party mainly active in the European Union, composed of 52 national-level liberal and liberal-democratic parties from across Europe.

The Free Democratic Party (), abbreviated to FDP, is a classical liberal political party in Germany.

His mother, Ruth Hilda ( née Holmes ; 1916 – 1991 ), taught at an elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father, Edmund Norwood Bacon ( May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005 ), was a well-respected architect and a prominent Philadelphian who had been Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission for many years.

Many prominent intellectuals, including the author and activist Gore Vidal, All in the Family creator Norman Lear, and the editors of the liberal magazine The New Republic, also endorsed the Anderson campaign.

William J. Brennan, Jr., a liberal Democrat appointed by Eisenhower in 1956, was the intellectual leader of the activist faction that included Black and Douglas.

* Elizabeth Edwards, an attorney and activist for liberal causes, Chapel Hill

Israel Shahak (; born Himmelstaub, April 28, 1933 – July 2, 2001 ) was a Polish-born Holocaust survivor and Israeli professor of chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known especially as a liberal political thinker, author, and civil rights activist.

During the proceedings, a far-right Russian activist approached the stage singing the Tsarist national anthem and then opened fire on liberal politician and publisher Pavel Miliukov.

James Allen " Jim " Hightower ( born January 11, 1943 ) is an American syndicated columnist, liberal political activist, and author who served from 1983 to 1991 as the elected commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture.

He was a militant idealist, a progressive social reformer, and a liberal activist whom many of his contemporaries considered the most cultivated man in the United States.

Founders of the havurot included the liberal political activist Arthur Waskow, Michael Strassfeld ( who later became rabbi for a Conservative congregation and then moved on to serve a major Reconstructionist congregation ), and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi.

* John Shelby Spong, retired bishop and liberal political activist

He won his district election every two years from 1961 to 1994 without ever facing a challenge more serious than he faced in the Democratic primary in 1988, when Stephen Holt, a neophyte liberal activist and bookstore owner from Dorchester won 31 out of 60 precincts, only to lose the district by a landslide due to the huge turnout of Bulger supporters in South Boston.

" Is the biographer of activist Judi Bari a tool of the right -- or just a skeptical liberal?

The Ethnological Society, though primarily a scientific organization, retained some of its predecessor's liberal outlook and activist bent.

A liberal activist, he served as National Chairman of the B ' nai B ' rith's Anti-Defamation League and as New York City Commissioner for Cultural Affairs.

Siding with the moderate liberal current for most of his lifetime, he began his political career as a collaborator of Prince Mihail Sturdza, while serving as head of the Iaşi Theater and issuing several publications together with the poet Vasile Alecsandri and the activist Ion Ghica.

Cultural hegemony much influenced Eurocommunism, the social sciences, and the activist politics of socially liberal and progressive politicians.

William Sloane Coffin, Jr. ( June 1, 1924 – April 12, 2006 ) was an American liberal Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist.

He was an activist for several liberal causes during the 1960s, such as building a powerful new California faculty union, and was part of several conflicts with authorities and university leaders regarding his experimental adult education schemes.

Also in 1968, liberal activist Robin Morgan led a protest of the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City ; at the protest a group of about one hundred women tossed items that they considered symbolic of women ’ s oppression into a Freedom Trash Can, including copies of Playboy, high-heeled shoes, corsets, and girdles.

" Rudman wrote in his memoir that he had " suspected all along " that Souter would not " overturn activist liberal precedents.

For many years, Eastman was a supporter of socialism, a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes.

Fang Lizhi ( February 12, 1936 – April 6, 2012 ) was a Chinese astrophysicist, vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986-87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

The publisher, who leaked the story, had been a former colleague of Meyer's when he was a liberal activist after the war.

Ms. is an American liberal feminist magazine co-founded by American feminist and activist Gloria Steinem and founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin together with founding editors Patricia Carbine, Joanne Edgar, Nina Finkelstein, and Mary Peacock, that first appeared in 1971 as an insert in New York magazine.