Liberals
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Liberal · individualistic liberalism · liberalism · old Liberals · self-styled Liberals
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The Liberal political party and the individualist creed associated with it, presented as the dominant force in earlier nineteenth-century legislation.
the Reform Act of 1867 was carried, not by a Liberal, but by a so-called Conservative ministry.
This legislation was favoured and promoted by Liberals, but the revolution of which it is the sign has nevertheless tended to diminish, in appearance at least, the importance of individual action, and has given room, and supplied arguments for State intervention in matters of business with which in England the State used to have little or no concern.
Law in a Free State
The Liberal political party/tendency in England, whose defining principles are said to be shifting from constitutional democracy toward questions of State interference.
Does a so-called Liberal Government bring in and carry a bill forbidding free bargains between landlord and tenant?
We have persons calling themselves Tory-Democrats, and we have self-styled Liberals opposing extension of the franchise.
now that the old Liberals have obtained all they asked—with the exception of a few minor points which are a matter of time only—questions of State structure have lost their attraction.