What's a 1750s liberal lol? Charters for companies issued by royals?
I actually looked it up and YIKES
This is what he apperantly is talking about
" Most 18th- and 19th-century liberal politicians thus feared
popular sovereignty. For a long time, consequently, they limited
suffrage to property owners. In Britain even the important
Reform Bill of 1867 did not completely abolish property qualifications for the right to vote. In France, despite the ideal of universal male suffrage proclaimed in 1789 and reaffirmed in the
Revolutions of 1830, there were no more than 200,000 qualified voters in a population of about 30,000,000 during the reign of
Louis-Philippe, the "citizen king" who had been installed by the ascendant
bourgeoisie in 1830. In the United States, the brave language of the
Declaration of Independence notwithstanding, it was not until 1860 that universal male suffrage prevailed—for whites. In most of Europe, universal male suffrage remained a remote ideal until late in the 19th century. Racial and sexual
prejudice also served to limit the franchise—and, in the case of
slavery in the United States, to deprive large numbers of people of virtually any hope of freedom. Efforts to extend the vote to women met with little success until the early years of the 20th century (
see woman suffrage). Indeed, Switzerland, which is sometimes called the world's oldest continuous
democracy, did not grant full
voting rights to women until 1971. "
Liberalism - Individualism, Free Markets, Liberty: Although liberal ideas were not noticeable in European politics until the early 16th century, liberalism has a considerable “prehistory” reaching back to the Middle Ages and even earlier. In the Middle Ages the rights and responsibilities of...
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