Liberalism

Liberalism
Liberals believed people should have a say in government. They also believed government shouldn't regulate businesses or trade unions. Liberalism is based on the idea that the government should have limited power.

General ideas of liberalism:


 * Laissez-faire, or "free trade." This gets rid of a government's role in private business deals. No tariffs (a price on imports and exports).
 * Economic individualism. Basically, liberals thought that people should be in charge of their own economic choices.
 * Market as regulatory + moral mechanism
 * Universal suffrage: every man can vote

People who didn't like liberalism: Why:
 * Upper-class aristocrats
 * Liberalism took away their power

Ideas that are NOT liberal: Why:
 * Racism, Anti-Semitism
 * Anti-feminism
 * Racism and Anti-feminism are based on the idea that some people are better than others. (Anti-Semitism is the belief that Jews are lesser than other people. Anti-feminism is the belief that women shouldn't be able to vote because men are smarter/better/more able) In liberalism, everyone is supposed to be EQUAL.

Decline of Liberalism

 * Trade unions
 * Want government to regulate industry

Britian's Liberal Government

 * Trades Dispute Act
 * National Insurance Act