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Describe the concept of liberalism which devlop in the europe early 18th century? |
| Answer» Liberalism meant different things to different people.Political liberalism:\tIt stood for equality before the law.\tRevolutionary France marked the first political experiment in liberal democracy in which right to vote and get elected was granted exclusively to property-owning men.\tMen without property, and all women were excluded from political rights.\tThroughout the 19th and 20th centuries, women and non-propertied men organised opposition movements demanding equal political rights.Economic liberalism:\tIt stood for freedom of markets and the abolition of state-imposed restrictions on the movement of goods and capital.\tCustoms Union or ‘zollverein’ was formed in Prussia, joined by most oLthe German states.\tThe Union abolished tariff barriers and reduced the number of currencies from thirty to two. | |