HIS109Y1 Lecture 28: Lecture 28 - Liberalism
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The function of law is to make sure that all people are treated equally: those taxed must agree to those payments (directly or through their representatives). Money we spend must be appropriately spent: personal liberty freedom of thought and freedom to hold opinions and the ability to express these freedoms through writing. Can you have one if the effects endanger others or restrict their freedom: restrained trade, liberals believed in adam smith"s unseen hand, domestic liberty role of the individual of the family in society. In most circumstances it is better for people to lead themselves over being led by someone else. Concept of empire complicated this (england and. France); we might rule over certain places, but we cannot expect to give the rights that liberalists give to white people to the people we rule. International liberty - can lead to tyranny: political liberty and sovereignty liberty is progress.
