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Classical liberalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Classical liberalism (also known as traditional liberalism and laissez-faire liberalism, or, in much of the world, simply called liberalism) is a doctrine stressing individual freedom and limited gove...
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Prior to the 20th century, classical liberalism was the dominant political philosophy in the United States. Basically, classical liberalism is the belief in liberty. Even today, one of the clearest statements of this philosophy is found in Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.
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Just a thought. (hat tip to J.L. Bell.) Just Ken CLASSical Liberalism Not only do I blog at Liberty & Power and my CLASSical Liberalism website, but I have two other websites dedicated to important libertarian figures: Spencer Heath and Charles T. Sprading.
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Liberalism is a broad array of related ideas and theories of government that consider individual liberty to be the most important political goal.
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Full text of Liberalism by Ludwig von Mises (1929) "The program of liberalism, therefore, if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production...
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We could multiply the "anti-government" statements by the framers without end. For they spelled out their theory of public affairs, that of classical liberalism, because in the mid and late 18th century, it had come under fire by a new brand of absolutism, and Rousseau was its prophet.
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Indeed, Manent's striking claim is that to make sense of classical liberalism as a form of life one must see it in the light of the spirit that animates it, and that that animating spirit comes into sharpest focus in the writings of the great European political theorists. Classical Liberalism Examined...
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The Rise, Fall, and Renaissance of Classical Liberalism, Part 1: Ralph Raico, August 1992 Classical liberalism — or simply liberalism, as it was called until around the turn of the century — is the signature political philosophy of Western civilization.
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Classical liberalism can be compared and contrasted to socialism .... Various forms of heirarchic socialism including the nuclear family, the extended family, the sept, the clan, the village, the city, the county, the country, national socialism (fascism), international socialism (communism).
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For classical liberals — sometimes called the ‘old’ liberalism — liberty and private property are intimately related.
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