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    Movements for Liberal Reform and Revolution- In decade following Congress of Vienna‚ conservative regimes=successful in maintaining order as only revolutions in Greece and Latin America succeeded‚ but late 1820’s brought new series of challenges. Russia‚ France‚ and Great Britain would deal w/ these new demands/problems in own unique ways.* Russia – Suppression:-- Secret societies developed in military. The Southern Society=more radical (republicans; no serfdom) while the Northern Society=more moderate

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    this world where mass media is always front and center‚ there is a liberal bias in the mass media. It is the media’s job to be an un-biased link between the happenings and the people but often times they fail to hold that standard. Journalist‚ newscasters‚ and talk show hosts’ choose to report on stories and events and they cover them so that they portray their liberal views. The mass media frequently delivers stories‚ with a liberal bias‚ regarding issues that many of the American people are sensitive

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    Today‚ America is build off the two sides of politics‚ liberal and conservative‚ which makes it difficult to make decisions throughout the government because they are such opposite views. The American definition of a liberal‚ "in which the political state should function as the servant to the common well-being."(Cranston). The definition used is a perfect representation of what Liberals as a group strive for‚ for the American people. Abortion is a topic that is talked about often in politics‚ and

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    The Liberal Internationalism perspective is focused on arguments in favor of intervention based on humanitarian grounds. People in support of this idea believe that there is a moral obligation of humans to both end and prevent gross human rights violations on innocent people. Also‚ it would be argued from this viewpoint‚ that at times‚ the use of force and intervention are the only means of protecting and enforcing standards of civilized treatment on people. At times‚ the oppression can reach such

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    treatment for women. Within the feminist theory there has developed several frameworks. One train of thought was liberal feminism. Under this approach the fault was found in society and that individuals could fairly and legally make changes to create equality. In the beginning of the movement this approach was followed and can be seen in the achievement of 19th Amendment. Liberals hoped that by doing things the “right” way and through the system then equality demonstrated by the

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    The citizen is expected to feel only a limited obligation to the state; paripassu the state is expected to impinge on the citizen’s life in only a feeble way. In fact the liberal theory of citizenship grew by the extraction of rights for the individual. During the 20th century‚ the brief that citizenship embodies legal‚ political as well as social rights has taken full hold. Citizenship is both a status and a set of rights

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    Terrorism in Liberal Democracies The basic question is not whether terrorism can be defeated; even third-rate dictatorships have shown that it can be put down with great ease. The real problem is the price that has to be paid by liberal societies valuing their democratic traditions. Over the last two decades considerable academic debate has taken place concerning the correlation between differing political systems and terrorism. It has become somewhat conventional wisdom to argue that liberal democracies

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    Conservative vs. Liberal Beliefs Copyright 2005 (revised 2010) StudentNewsDaily.com We all want the same things in life. We want freedom; we want the chance for prosperity; we want as few people suffering as possible; we want healthy children; we want to have crime-free streets. The argument is how to achieve them… LIBERALS – believe in government action to achieve equal opportunity and equality for all.  It is the duty of the government to alleviate social ills and to protect civil liberties

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    does liberal ideology promote and succeeds Democratic Peace within the state and other liberal states? There are different aspects that can prove democratic peace as a product of liberalism. The author states the definition of democracy as always changing over time. The first focused point covered throughout this article is that liberal states prevent war within one another but can start war with a conservative state. Second‚ liberal states will help states that are conforming into liberal states

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    Differences Between Conservative and Liberals As citizens‚ one may hear a lot about conservatives and liberals. When one first thinks of them‚ one can see just see the drastic differences between the two and it true‚ they are on different sides of the government spectrum. Liberals and Conservative have different beliefs in the way they feel government should function with‚ Conservatives believing in traditional and religious values and Liberals believing in progress and civil liberties. When it

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