Question

Explain the concept of liberal nationalism that developed in europe in the early 18th century

Answer 1

Liberal nationalism means
-individual freedom
-equality before law
-government by consent
-freedom of markets
-abolition of state imposed restrictions on the movement of goods and capital

Liberalism became the main concern in europe after the french revolution because:-
-universal adult suffrage was not granted to people by the napoleonic code.Men without property and women were denied the right to vote.
-women were made subject to the authority of men.
-markets were not free as the 39 confederations of france had their own law which posed problems for the free movement of goods.
- there were no standard weights and measurements and no rates of custom duties which greatly affected the trade.

Libralism fused with the french revolution envisaged the:-
-end of autocracy and clerical privileges.
-introduction of a constitution amd representative government.
-inviolability of private property.
-removal of trade restrictions.
-freedom of trade markets.

Answer 2

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Liberalism meant different things to different people.

Political Liberalism

▪️ It stood for equality before the law. Revolutionary France marked the first political experiment in liberal democracy in which right to vote and get elected was granted exclusively to property-owning men.

▪️ Men without property, and all women were excluded from political rights.

▪️Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, women and non-propertied men organised opposition movements demanding equal political rights.

Economic liberalism

▪️It stood for freedom of markets and the abolition of state-imposed restrictions on the movement of goods and capital.

▪️ Customs Union or ‘zollverein’ was formed in Prussia, joined by most of the German states.

▪️The Union abolished tariff barriers and reduced the number of currencies from thirty to two