Absolutism Vs Liberalism

The goal of modern political and judicial institutions is to protect individual liberties against violations of the government. Representative government and rules of law, independence of courts and tribunals from interference from administrative offices, order to arrested detainees to determine the legality of arrest, judicial investigations and curtailment of arbitrariness of administration, freedom of speech and press, separation of state from church and many other institutions, only one goal to limit the arbitrariness of officials and make individuals free from their tyranny. Liberalism is therefore far from negating the necessity of the existence of a machine state, legal system and government. It is a gross misunderstanding, to associate it in any way with the idea of anarchism. For a liberal, the state is absolute a necessity because it
Communism is almost gone, and few still defend socialism. Central Europe is building a society based on a free market and the idea of a rule of law. Reliable observers of the modern world understand that the welfare state is unsustainable and will have to be radically reformed. The revolution in information systems strengthens the position of individuals and small groups, thus undermining the authority of the central authority. Liberalism is sometimes perceived - even in America - as a radical philosophy. This is obviously true, because the word "radical" derives from the Latin word radix meaning "root", "basis". And indeed, the liberal philosophy of promoting the idea of equal freedom, entrepreneurship, the principles of law, tolerance, pluralism and constitutional government is the fundamental philosophy of the modern world. These ideas have become so popular that we forget about how shocking they were. Liberals want to use them more consistently than advocates of other ideologies. John Locke said that freedom for man is something