POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Universal Health Care, Honor Killing, Individual And Group Rights
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!1: protection of private property: liberal conception is always bound up with protecting private. Private: religion use to be public and punishable by law, but classical liberals made it private, religion may not meddle in affairs of the state and visa versa. Equality of rights: equality is blind to class, religion, wealth, etc. Therefore, redistribution violates the protection of private property: classical liberalism sees freedom of higher value than equality when the two clash. Democracy is about extending power to the people - a radical idea. Liberalism is about setting limits on that power - a conservative idea. Liberal democracy: you have the right to individual freedom, you have a constitution, that you don"t get to vote on. Monday, october 3, 2016: government is formed by the people, enacts and carries out will of the people, freedom of religion, individual are free to practise their own religion.
