HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: John Stuart Mill, Corn Laws, Anti-Clericalism
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02/01/2016: liberals would argue that there is no essential tension and no exclusion between freedom and liberty. One is essential for the other to operate: liberals: liberty is the result of restraint. They believed that war always leads to a reduction of collective and individual freedom: political liberty: progress as a result for making the legislative government responsible for the community as a whole. Italy tried to become a liberal state, and ended up being totalitarian. Hobhouse: wrote liberalism, believed that we might rule over large sections of africa, but we cannot expect to give the same rights that the englishmen or frenchmen have to those who are ruled by us. Benjamin disraeli: head of the conservative party, after 1868, he was able to control the entire party, he appealed to the urban middle class voter. Although they usually voted liberal, he felt he could sway them.
