POL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Corporatism, Complete Control, Friedrich Engels
25 Jul 2018
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Liberalism rst emerged as an ideology in seventeenth century britain. Political struggle between the bourgeoisie and the monarchy. They had formed an assembly, also known as parliament, although there were no elections they discussed public affairs and were seeking to make this institution politically relevant. James ii rejected the assembly in favour of absolute rule, and was forced out to the. This initiated the rule of having parliament into political decision making. The glorious revolution ushered a liberal era in britain, as good political power was no longer seen as absolute and concentrated, but instead to be fragmented and held in check. Liberalism believes in secularization (separation of church and state), autonomy, self interest behaviour, rationalization and solely believe that the individual knows how to dictate themselves better than the government. Locke argued hobbes, where hobbes had said that individuals agreed to delegate authority to a sovereign for the purpose of maintaining law and order, but.
