This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??

The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition remarks that " At the time it was framed the charter was considered extraordinarily liberal " and that " the government has always been largely non-sectarian in spirit.

Central to classical liberal ideology was their interpretation of John Locke's Second treatise of government and " A letter concerning toleration ", which had been written as a defence of the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

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.

In 1848, several revolutions broke out in Europe as rulers were confronted with popular demands for liberal constitutions and more democratic government.

Fascism condemns liberal democracy for basing government legitimacy on quantity rather than quality, and for causing quarreling partisan politics, but deny that the ideology is entirely against democracy.

Mussolini's coalition government initially pursued economically liberal policies under the direction of liberal finance minister Alberto De Stefani, including balancing the budget through deep cuts to the civil service.

[...] Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

My personal impression – and this is valid for South America – is that in Chile, for example, we will witness a transition from a dictatorial government to a liberal government.

During the Revolutionary disturbances of 1848 ( March Revolution ), he appointed liberal ministers in the government, lifted censorship, and remitted a liberal electoral law.

The Christian Democrats lost votes compared to 2002, reaching only 35. 2 %, and failed to get a majority for a " black-yellow " government of CDU / CSU and liberal FDP.

France crushed the liberal government with massive force in the so-called " Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis " expedition, and Ferdinand was restored as absolute monarch in 1823.

The " disaster " of 1898 created the Generation of ' 98, a group of statesmen and intellectuals who demanded liberal change from the new government.

On 22 September 1804, Dessalines, preferring Napoleon's style rather than the more liberal yet vulnerable type of political government of the French Republican Radicals ( see liberalism and radicalism in France ), proclaimed himself Emperor Jacques I.

López Gutiérrez also solicited support from the liberal government of Guatemala and even from the conservative regime in Nicaragua.

The government is economically liberal, but currently lacks universal suffrage except for District Council elections and Legislative council seats for geographical constituencies.

Hefner further claimed the government was out to get him because of Playboy philosophy and its advocacy of more liberal drug laws.

Turabi was noted for his commitment to the democratic process and a liberal government before coming to power, but strict application of sharia law, and an intensification of the long-running war in southern Sudan, human rights abuses, once in power.

The liberal conservative LDP was in power from 1955 to 2009, except for a very short-lived coalition government formed from its opposition parties in 1993 ; the largest opposition party was the social liberal Democratic Party of Japan in the late 1990s and late 2000s.

As for states' rights, they have never counted in the thinking of my liberal friends except as irritations of a minor and immoral nature which exist now only as anachronisms.

And yet the elements which capture his liberal and humanistic imagination are those which make the English story worth telling and worth remembering.

This is the Powell Amendment, which in 1957 divided even a `` liberal '' group like the American Veterans Committee ( AVC ).

This does not necessarily mean that such teachers will favor vocational education, as contrasted with liberal education, but they are likely to favor an approach to liberal education which has a maximal vocational-advancement value, as against a kind of `` pure '' liberal education that is not designed to help people get better jobs.

Eleazar, pausing on the Hanover plain, found its great forests and remoteness good and with his own hands built the first College Hall, a log hut dedicated `` for the education & instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing & all parts of learning which shall appear necessary and expedient for civilizing & christianizing Children of Pagans as well as in all liberal Arts and Sciences ; ;

The liberal pressure bloc ( which coyly masquerades under the name Democratic Study Group ) had fought the committee before, and had always lost.

And even this 1. 5 % will be reduced to 1 %, if we take out India and China, which have not pursued liberal trade and industrial policies recommended by the developed countries.

Sometimes the group criticized Gianfranco Fini for his liberal views on abortion, artificial insemination and stem-cell research, which led some notable ex-DC members as Publio Fiori to leave the party.

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.

Iona College, a small Catholic liberal arts college in New Rochelle, NY is named after the island on which Columba established his first monastery in Scotland.

The liberal conservative tradition in the United States combines the economic individualism of the classical liberals with a Burkean form of conservatism ( which has also become part of the American conservative tradition, such as in the writings of Russell Kirk ).

Both conservative and liberal parties tend to favor private ownership of property, in opposition to communist, socialist and green parties, which favor communal ownership or laws requiring social responsibility on the part of property owners.

This belief led classical liberal politicians to pass the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, which limited the provision of social assistance.

Alan Wolfe summarises this viewpoint, which reject ( s ) any such distinction and argue ( s ) instead for the existence of a continuous liberal understanding that includes both Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes ...

" Cannon's ministry takes a unique approach quite distinct from modern liberal Christians, yet which still supports homosexual relations.

Other significant contrasts were seen in regards to " liberal " versus " conservative " social positions, as well as in one ’ s understanding of God, with 43 % of homosexual participants sharing the " orthodox, biblical " understanding of God which 71 % of heterosexual participants indicate they do.

In the era after the Congress of Vienna, which was influenced by Prince Metternich and his secret police, Hoffmann's text had a distinctly revolutionary, and at the same time liberal, connotation, since the demand for a united Germany was most often made in connection with demands for freedom of the press and other liberal rights.

They can be seen in 19th-century liberal British theology and in the rise of Unitarianism, which adopted many of its beliefs and ideas.

or B. M ) are four-year programs that include individual bass lessons, amateur orchestra experience, and a sequence of courses in music history, music theory, and liberal arts courses ( e. g., English literature ), which give the student a more well-rounded education.

This was no longer Robespierre's Republic, which was more radical, or the oligarchic liberal Republic of the Directory, but the autocratic Roman Republic of Caesar Augustus, a Conservative Republic, which reminded the French of stability, order, and peace.

The very first chapter traces the evolution and ethos of Sufi Islam in South Asia ... For readers like you and me, it is a revealing experience to be reminded of the liberal roots of Islam in South Asia ... The book rightly points out that the future course of this jihad will be decided inside Pakistan.