There has been a debate on legalizing drug use for quite some time now. Most legalizers are liberals‚ and their views on drug policy are consistent with liberal views on other issues. This paper will outline the liberal view of legalizing drugs. Liberals do not generally trust individuals to make reasonable choices about drug use‚ and they think government should adopt policies that attempt to discourage drug use. But liberal legalizers do not like using police power to achieve this goal‚ especially
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Is Sweden a Socialist or Liberal Country? There are many points that can be made to further prove how Sweden is either a Socialist or Liberalist country‚ or even both. However the main factor that it really comes down to is the people. Sweden is a democratic country so whatever the people vote for‚ is what will come into power. For 45 consecutive years the Social Democratic Party was in power‚ and they were just re elected this year‚ it’s clear that the Swedish populace is very much on the side
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of media in liberal democracy”. At first we have to know about liberal democracy and media. Democratic government was initiated in the Greek city states of Athens in the fifth century BC. The word ‘democracy’ is derived from two Greek words‚ demos (meaning ‘people’) and kratos (meaning ‘power’). The term literally means ‘government by the people’. Initially‚ major decisions were taken by meeting at which all free male attended. But now this system has been changed. Liberal democracy is
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During 1906-12 when the Liberal Party were in power started the Liberal Reforms‚ which were several programmes with the intent to help British citizens living in poverty. There is a debate amongst historians whether or not the Liberal Reforms were effective and helped the people living in poverty. The quote from the historian Martin Pugh suggests that the reforms were not introduced to create a welfare state but only focusing on solving specific problems that poor people have faced. There are other
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particular needs and relative cultural norms of one society versus another with the two forms existing in global harmony; rather it is the case that liberal democracy generally remains significantly more stable‚ incites less violence‚ and promotes economic progress in far greater frequencies than the various blends of autocracy. It would seem then‚ that liberal democracy is the superior ideological foundation for successful‚ prosperous‚ and stable governance—an argument asserted quite controversially by
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There are many different feminist viewpoints‚ but the most prominent ones are Radical and Liberal. Radical feminists believe that the root cause of inequality in society is the oppression of women‚ which is caused by patriarchy‚ or male dominance. On the other hand‚ Liberal feminists believe that all genders are created as equals and should be treated the same. They state that oppression only exists because of the way men and women are socialized‚ and they support patriarchy. The two articles chosen
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How successful were the Liberal social reforms in reducing poverty in the UK? (24) After two unsuccessful electoral campaigns in the late 19th century and early 20th century‚ numerous splits in the party after William Gladstone’s retirement‚ and the growing awareness of the issue of poverty within the UK‚ key figures within the Liberal party realised a change in the direction of Liberalism was required. They pushed for ’New Liberalism’‚ a more modern form of Liberalism that stressed numerous key
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dirtiest word in the American political lexicon these days is ‘liberal.’” These words from Roger Cohen‚ a columnist for The New York Times (Cohen)‚ made this statement in the early 2000’s‚ defining liberal as politicians’ worst insult. A word often used today simply to mean easygoing can also be used as an harsh critique. The word liberal can be used for numerous purposes‚ and this flexibility can allow new meanings to develop rapidly. Liberal has gone from meaning free-minded or generous to meaning wasteful
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Why and how have liberals supported the fragmentation of political power? (15) Why Liberals are concerned about power‚ most basically‚ because power constitutes a threat to liberty. Their concern about concentrations of power is rooted in their emphasis upon individualism and its implication that human beings are rationally self- interested creatures. Egoism determines that those who have the ability to influence behaviour of others are inevitably inclined to use that ability for their own benefit
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There have always been two groups of political thought: liberal and conservative. These two schools of thought can be applied to almost anything. This includes the thousand year old poem‚ Beowulf. Who better embodies the liberal traits than Beowulf himself. A liberal is a nontraditional person who is open to new behaviors and not afraid to discard their traditional values in order to better themselves and their community. This definition of liberal describes Beowulf. Beowulf was a fictional hero who
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