HIST 11B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Personal Assistant, Treaties Of The European Union, Proletariat
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Crimes of liberty: liberalism as enclosure, dispossession, and slavery. What is liberalism? the tradition of thought whose central concern is the liberty of the individual several principles: Freedom of thought and speech (in the bill of rights) Consent by the governed as a condition of the legitimacy of political power (in liberalism, there is no despotism. The government has to consent or the rule is not necessary. The rule of law is not above any ruler. Market economy: money as currency, commodities, and labor) Limited government (there are no major systems, but they rule and discuss past laws to make them better) Maintains only real freedom is freedom from coercion. State intervention in the economy regarded as coercive power that restricts individual economic freedom. 19th century: emphasized free trade and limited government (pillars of classical liberalism, closely connected because government raised revenue for import tariffs)
