Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Worship God, Ascribed Status, Classical Liberalism
8 Dec 2016
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Origins and development, central themes and the liberal state. Constitution (a third dimension in canada): reformist and status quo. Economic: state regulation of the economy, trade, redistributive taxation, labour relations, healthcare and child care. Social: religion and politics, abortion, immigration, law and order/drugs. Government institutions: quebec, first nations, monarchy, senate, french and english on the supreme court. All liberals aim to promote individual liberty - they value freedom, they value liberty in the same way nudists value liberty. But liberals about the nature of liberty. Brian barry (1936-2009) a very prominent british political scientist. Says there are basically three main things that makes a state liberal characters of liberal states: religious toleration , freedom of the press, abolition of servile social status. No religious dogma can reasonably be held with certainty - can be any religion you want, but you have to know that you could be wrong (take a back seat to your religion)
