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	American liberalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		American liberalism (also called in the United States modern liberalism) is a political current in the United States that claims descent from classical liberalism in terms of devotion to certain aspects of individual liberty, but rejects absolute free-market economics in favor of institutions that promote social and economic equity.
		The political godfather of American liberalism, Franklin Delano Roosevelt never publicly embraced Keynes's theories but there were many similarities between the works of the two men [12].
		The ideas of American liberal philosophers and American liberal politicians, such as Roosevelt, laid the foundation for American liberalism that remains a viable political philosophy embraced by a significant percentage of Americans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberalism_in_the_United_States (3396 words)

	Liberalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the United States, the influence of Keynesianism on Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal has led modern liberalism to be identified with American liberalism and Canadian Liberalism.
		Liberalism can trace its roots back to the humanism that began to challenge the authority of the established church during Renaissance, and the Whigs of the Glorious Revolution in Great Britain, whose assertion of their right to choose their king can be seen as a precursor to claims of popular sovereignty.
		The fundamental principles of liberalism include transparency, individual and civil rights, especially the right to life, liberty, and property; government with the consent of the governed as determined by open and fair elections; and equal rights for all citizens under law.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberalism (8787 words)

	Cold War Liberalism: The Nightmare Revisited
		Brands' claim is that the apparent triumph of modern American liberalism in the period from 1933 into the 1970s was something of an illusion.
		While New Deal liberalism was welcomed – quite incorrectly – as having cured the Great Depression and functioned for Americans as the official public ideology of World War II, its longer success owed everything to a set of events which prevented a return to "normalcy" in the late 1940s.
		The temporary character of Americans' love for government is shown by the rapidity with which wartime establishments were cast aside after the war – with one important exception.
	www.antiwar.com /stromberg/s042702.html (1390 words)

	Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline
		His assault on modern liberalism is on target; but his presentation of classical liberalism is a caricature.
		Absent these restraints, classical liberalism degenerates into radical individualism and egalitarianism, the defining characteristics of modern liberalism.
		In his view, two doctrines underlie liberalism: individualism and egalitarianism.
	www.mises.org /misesreview_detail.asp?control=22&sortorder=issue (1495 words)

	Liberalism, Democracy, and the State: Reclaiming the Unity of Liberal Politics
		Therefore modern liberals looked to democratic government to provide services they did not trust the private sphere to provide, as well as to create greater material equality among citizens by means of graduated taxation and other redistributive measures.
		Modern liberals are good at seeing this tendency in the corporate world and classical liberals are good at seeing it in public bureaucracies.
		Modern liberals retorted that democratic government is the only institution able to counter act the enormous private power exercised by business.
	www.dizerega.com /libunity.htm (2500 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline
		Modern liberalism wishes to rob America of its unique heritage and to replace it with a revolutionary concept of human nature and human governance.
		From these themes-which reach their symbolic zenith in modern liberalism-the author spins out the social maladies of the present world, one by one: affirmative action, the culture of death, radical feminism, et al.
		Robert Bork, who had his character assassinated by Joe Biden during his nomination hearing for the Supreme Court, has written this sweeping epic against Liberalism and its various manifestations in American society.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060987197?v=glance (3777 words)

	Help cure (American/Modern) Liberalism on 43 Things
		Modern Liberalism (and all its ancillary forms, predecessors and derivatives) is a sickness.
		According to most American (and foreign) media, The Patriot Act is the most invasive corrosion on personal civil liberties in history, Republican “leaders” are hypocrites, and Bush alternates between being a hollow puppet, and at other times, a devoutly religious but stubborn simpleton incapable of complex thought and immovable on issues of import.
		Americans who watched the hearing favored (by a 4 to one margin) Roberts’ ascension to the Court.
	www.43things.com /things/view/326706 (3158 words)

	Toogood Reports Commentary: Paul E. Scates
		That, of course, is the sense that modern ‘liberals´ like to promote to Americans about their political opposition, picturing them as being against progress of any kind.
		On moral and behavioral issues modern ‘liberals´ advocate that government take a ‘hands off´ policy, effectively supporting the drug and alcohol culture and the sexual promiscuity that results in one third of all births being illegitimate, and one in four unmarried adults being infected with a sexually transmitted disease.
		The battle in American politics today, then, is between misnamed neo-socialist ‘liberals´ who seek an expanded role for the federal government in all areas of life, and classical Liberals, today called ‘conservatives´, who seek to limit government intrusion and power, thus preserving individual liberty.
	toogoodreports.com /column/general/scates/121901.htm (2019 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Politics & Economy. Defining Liberals PBS
		Roosevelt saw liberalism and conservatism as the "two general schools of political belief," a characterization that only solidified further as liberals continued to champion the state as an active agent for the promotion of individual well-being and social equality.
		The American liberal tradition is rooted in the 17th and 18th century English political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Adam Smith.
		To many, the term "liberal" is merely the contrast to "conservative" in modern political face-offs.
	www.pbs.org /now/politics/liberalism.html (843 words)

	Modern American Liberalism
		In the League of Nations he also sought to create an international force to replace traditional national forces--an idea modern liberals have supported in the United Nations.
		For example, liberals tend to see poverty as caused by social conditions rather than the moral failures of the poor.
		Liberals usually believe that government can change social and economic conditions.
	staff.jccc.net /vclark/us2-liberalism.htm (128 words)

	Social liberalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the United States, the terms "liberal" and " American liberal" are used to denote modern liberalism rather than neoliberalism, libertarianism, or classical liberalism.
		Since modern liberalism attained dominance primarily in the United States, it is usually referred to as American liberalism.
		Modern liberalism, also called new liberalism, is very different from the ambiguous term neoliberalism, a name given to various proponents of the free markets and also to some conservative opponents of free markets, such as mercantilistic conservatives, in the late 20th century's global economy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_liberalism (365 words)

	Christian Faith and Modern Democracy
		Kraynak seeks instead a "stable constitutional order, rather than democracy or human rights per se, the litmus test of legitimate government for Christians." This "constitutionalism without liberalism" permits a practical accommodation with the modern world without turning the Christian faith into a mirror image of political liberalism.
		The modern world is in the grips of deteriorated family life, materialism, and a willfulness dominating all aspects of life.
		The contemporary "liberal democratic conception of human dignity based on autonomous self-determination" is not the heart of liberal democracy, at least as understood by the American Founders.
	www.acton.org /publicat/randl/print_review.php?id=405 (365 words)

	Introduction
		As Greenberg argues, liberalism was consciously woven into the constitution by the Founding Fathers and is the basis of the American political system.
		During the height of the United States' post-war hegemony the major difference between the Modern Liberal and the Modern Conservative was over the acceptable degree of intervention (or reform) needed (or desired) to advance dominant capitalist interests and maintain social welfare.
		Inherent to this difference was the conservative's emphasis on "economic freedom" and the liberal's emphasis on "civil liberties." This underscores the unresolved (and ongoing) tension in liberalism between the values of property and equality.
	www.csuchico.edu /~gwright/intro.htm (365 words)

	Political Science - Graduate Faculty - New School University
		I will be examining their social and political activism, their "fit" in modern American labor movement and their procedures and internal politics.
		Political theory; the political thought of Hannah Arendt; American and comparative constitutional law; the development of civil rights and liberties in the modern state; educational policy.
		Working dissertation title is, "Cardoso's Fiscal Reforms and the New Balance of Power between Levels of Government: the End of the Brazilian Predatory Federalism?".
	www.newschool.edu /gf/polsci/phd-students.htm (365 words)

	Encyclopedia: Liberal Party of Australia
		Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism, an adherent of the ideology espousing individual liberty and private property, meaning varies country to country American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Modern liberalism, in the USA, describes a political ideology that favors government intervention to promote equality Political progressivism, a political...
		The Commonwealth Liberal Party was a fusion of the non-Labor parties in 1909 in response to Labor's growing electoral prominence.
		The Liberal Party's organisation is dominated by the six state divisions, reflecting the party's commitment to a federalised system of government (perhaps their most strongly held policy and certainly one of the few that has remained since the party's creation).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Liberal-Party-of-Australia (4435 words)

	SFU Library - Modern Latin America
		A survey of Latin American history from Independence (1808-24) to the present: post-Independence political collapse and reconsolidation; Latin America in the world trade system and the changing conditions of economic dependency; nationalist reform (Mexico) and socialist revolution (Cuba), liberalism, populism, and the rise of modernizing military.
		Immigrants from Latin America represent one of the most rapidly growing segments of the North American population, and our hemisphere is increasingly connected through trade, migration, and cultural influences, yet the world south of the Rio Grande remains largely unknown to the vast majority of Canadians.
		The study of the Latin American past will allow us to understand some of the reasons why these societies followed a strikingly different path than the “North” in the past two centuries.
	www.lib.sfu.ca /researchhelp/subjectguides/hist/classes/hist051209.htm (4435 words)

	Reinhold Messner -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		American theologian who had extensive influence on political thought and whose criticism of the prevailing theological liberalism of the 1920s significantly affected the intellectual climate within American Protestantism.
		His exposure, as a pastor in Detroit, to the problems of American industrialism led him to join the Socialist Party for a time.
		theological movement in Protestant denominations in both Europe and America that rejected earlier liberal and optimistic theologies of progress; originated after World War I; also called crisis theology and dialectical theology; represented a return to biblical doctrine and creeds of early Christendom, usually in harmony with 16th-century Reformers; accepted modern...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9052253&ref=news0305 (629 words)

	Encyclopedia: People for the American Way
		Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism, an adherent of the ideology espousing individual liberty and private property, meaning varies country to country American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Modern liberalism, in the USA, describes a political ideology that favors government intervention to promote equality Political progressivism, a political...
		People for the American Way (PFAW) is a prominent liberal advocacy organization in the United States, founded by television producer Norman Lear in 1980.
		Ralph Neas is the current president of People for the American Way, a prominent socialist advocacy organization in the United States.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/People-for-the-American-Way (378 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The End of Reform : New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
		Instead, a new liberalism that has since dominated much of American political life embraced the belief that the key to a successful society is economic growth through high consumption.
		Yet, his main focus is the continued deintensification of liberalism in subsequent administrations and the nature of liberals and their movement from anti-big business and pro-worker to less hostile to big business as many liberals moved from one side to the other.
		This is a major reinterpretation of the New Deal; a graceful, careful, and accessible study of difficult terrain in economic history and a timely historical backdrop to the position of liberalism in the 1990s.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394535731?v=glance (2072 words)

	The Dangers of Liberation Theology
		Another reason Liberation Theology caught on is that it combines the most important and emotion-packed elements of modern Latin American culture: Marxism, nationalism, opposition to the U.S., revolution, and an interest in the five central Latin American social problems–hunger, poverty, lack of education, disease, and political injustice.
		Among Protestants, Liberation Theology was born within a group of theologians associated with the "Church and Society in Latin America" movement (ISAL in Spanish).
		Liberation Teleology's greatest threat to Christianity is its tendency to allow the gospel of Christ to be swallowed up by Marxism.
	www.baptistpillar.com /bd0136.htm (1345 words)

	Brazilian Racism
		The more modern-day liberals who have worked on Brazilian racism are just as guilty of vulgar Marxism as the earlier American liberal writers.
		Brazil did not have such a system of legalized segregation and the American liberals wanted to make the point that the United States should be more like Brazil.
		In Brazil the "states pledged support to the federal government in exchange for the right to run their own affairs." (Eakin 1997:38) The result was that the federal government often had to resort to the use of force to bring about its policies.
	www.vernonjohns.org /plcooney/brazil.html (1345 words)

	HDS Faculty Writings File - bMS 13001/E.C. Moore: Writings of E.C. Moore
		"Modern Liberalism and that of the Eighteenth Century", The American Journal of Theology, Nol.
		"The Liberal Movement and Missions", The American Journal of Theology, Vol.
		Harvard Glee Club European Tour, The University Press, Cambridge, MA "College Studies Preparatory to the Seminary Course", The Reformed Church Review,
	www.hds.harvard.edu /library/bms/13001/bms13001mooreec.html (1345 words)

	appendix_d
		The tenets of theological liberalism and outright apostasy have almost universally penetrated the leadership of the modern church, undermining the leaders' confidence in the reliability of the biblical narratives.
		There is no possibility of legitimately invoking biblical judicial standards to defend either socialism or modern egalitarianism, i.e., hard-core liberation theology or soft-core liberation theology.
		By the 1970's, American evangelical colleges had become heavily influenced by the liberal worldview.
	www.freebooks.com /docs/html/gnbd/appendix_d.htm (1345 words)

	NGO Watch - Media Guide
		•Books: Slouching towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, 1996; The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War With Itself, second edition, 1993; The Tempting of America: the Political Seduction of the Law, 1989
		• Author: The North Korean Economy: Between Crisis and Catastrophe, forthcoming Korea's Future and the Great Powers, co-editor, 2001; Comparing the Soviet and American Economies, co-editor, 2000; Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems, 2000; The End of North Korea, 1999; Korea Approaches Reunification, 1995; The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and Misrule, 1995.
		• Was a Senior professional staff member for Near East and South Asia on the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1992-2002); Staff writer for Insight Magazine (1987-1992); Editorial assistant for the Los Angeles Times and Reuters, in Jerusalem (1984-1985).
	www.ngowatch.org /media.htm (1345 words)

	liberalism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Classical liberalism drew upon the ideals of the Enlightenment and the doctrines of liberty supported in the American and French revolutions.
		While such programs are also advocated by socialism, liberalism does not support the socialist goal of complete equality imposed by state control, and because it is still dedicated to the primacy of the individual, liberalism also strongly opposes communism.
		Often opposed to liberalism is the doctrine of conservatism, which, simply stated, supports the maintenance of the status quo.
	www.bartleby.com /65/li/liberali.html (806 words)

	The Place of Mises's Liberalism by Ralph Raico
		The amalgamation of genuine liberalism with the strand of interventionism that today is often called by that name is also the disabling error of two books by the American scholar J. Salwyn Schapiro, Condorcet and the Rise of Liberalism (1934) and Liberalism and The Challenge of Fascism (1949).
		The great intellectual and political movement known as liberalism has been one of the prime shapers of the modern world.
		Liberalism is shown, in Mises’ exposition, to be a coherent theory of man and society and of the institutional arrangements that are required to promote social harmony and the general welfare.
	www.lewrockwell.com /raico/raico21.html (959 words)

	liberalism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Classical liberalism drew upon the ideals of the Enlightenment and the doctrines of liberty supported in the American and French revolutions.
		Classical liberalism stressed not only human rationality but the importance of individual property rights, natural rights, the need for constitutional limitations on government, and, especially, freedom of the individual from any kind of external restraint.
		While such programs are also advocated by socialism, liberalism does not support the socialist goal of complete equality imposed by state control, and because it is still dedicated to the primacy of the individual, liberalism also strongly opposes communism.
	www.bartleby.com /65/li/liberali.html (806 words)

	BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
		Richard Rorty, “Postmodern Bourgeois Liberalism,” “The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy,” and “The Contingency of the Liberal Community,” and “Private Irony, Public Hope” and “Religion as Conversation-Stopper”.
		To explore alternatives to social and political liberalism which are consistent with democratic institutions and practices.
		To discuss and critique social and political liberalism, its historical foundations and contemporary expressions.
	www3.baylor.edu /~Michael_Beaty/classes/phi4361.html (1969 words)

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