Liberal vs Democracy - What's the difference?
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, mechanical); worthy, befitting a gentleman.
* 1983', David Leslie Wagner, ''The Seven '''liberal arts in the Middle Ages
* 1997 , Gordon D. Morgan, Toward an American Sociology: Questioning the European Construct (ISBN 0275949990), page 45:
* 2008 , Donal G. Mulcahy, The Educated Person: Toward a New Paradigm for Liberal Education (ISBN 0742561224)
Generous, willing to give unsparingly;.
* 2005 , John Gardner, Assessment and Learning (ISBN 141291051X), page 50:
* 2007 , Helena Page Schrader, The English Templar (ISBN 0595432719), page 309:
* 2010 , Simon Guillebaud, More Than Conquerors: A Call to Radical Discipleship (ISBN 1854249738), page 142:
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, title= Ample, abundant; generous in quantity.
* 1896 , in Ice and refrigeration , volume 11, page 93:
* 2009 , R. Furman Kenney, Chesterville: The Village at the End of the Road (ISBN 1438960344), page 102:
* 2011 , Marlene Perez, Dead Is Not an Option (ISBN 0547345933), page 37:
(obsolete) Unrestrained, licentious.
* 1599 ,
Widely open to new ideas, willing to depart from established opinions or conventions; permissive.
(politics) Open to political or social changes and reforms associated with either classical or modern liberalism.
One with liberal views, supporting individual liberty (see ).
(US) Someone left-wing; one with a left-wing ideology.
A supporter of any of several liberal parties.
(UK) One who favors individual voting rights, human and civil rights, and laissez-faire markets .
(uncountable) Rule by the people, especially as a form of government; either directly or through elected representatives (representative democracy).
* 1866 , J. Arthur Partridge, On Democracy , Trübner & Co., page 2:
* 1901 , The American Historical Review , American Historical Association, page 260:
* 1921 , James Bryce Bryce, Modern Democracies , The Macmillan Company, page 1:
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 24:
(countable, government) A government under the direct or representative rule of the people of its jurisdiction.
* 2003 , Fareed Zakaria, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad , W. W. Norton & Company, page 13:
(uncountable) Belief in political freedom and equality; the "spirit of democracy".
* 1918 , Charles Horton Cooley, “A Primary Culture for Democracy”, in Publications of the American Sociological Society 13 ,
* 1919 , Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, The Spirit of Russia: Studies in History, Literature and Philosophy , Macmillan,
* 1996 , Petre Roman, The Spirit of Democracy and the Fabric of NATO - The New European Democracies and NATO Enlargement ,
As nouns the difference between liberal and democracy
is that liberal is libertarian, liberal while democracy is (uncountable) rule by the people, especially as a form of government; either directly or through elected representatives (representative democracy).As an adjective liberal
is libertarian, liberal.liberal
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(en adjective)- Americans remain enamored with Europe's ability to produce the consequential thought for America. It was the same in nearly every liberal field. Education sought its roots in such Europeans as Froebel, Frobenius, and Rousseau. Political science tried to connect to Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Nietzsche, Machiavelli, and Otto von Bismarck, for instance. Economics copied the thought of Adam Smith,
- When he shows improvement she is liberal with her praise and then moves on to the next set of skills to be learnt.
- Queen Isabella was already being called Santa Isabella by many of her subjects because she was liberal with her alms.
- Was it because the believers were so liberal' with their possessions that God was so ' liberal with his grace?
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- For this reason a liberal' amount of piping should be used. If a ' liberal supply of piping is provided at first, the first cost will of course be greater, but the extra expenditure is called for but once.
- The result was usually that such helpers got a liberal sprinkling of mud over their clothing.
- Rose put a steaming cup of mint tea in front of me and spooned a liberal helping of honey into it.
- Myself, my brother, and this grieved count,
- Did see her, hear her, at that hour last night,
- Talk with a ruffian at her chamber-window;
- Who hath indeed, most like a liberal villain,
- Confess'd the vile encounters they have had
- A thousand times in secret.
- Younger people tend to be more liberal than older people.
Antonyms
* conservative *right-wingDerived terms
* liberal arts * Liberal * Liberal Democrat * Liberal Party * small-l liberalNoun
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* moderate, conservative, progressive, libertarian, centristExternal links
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(wikipedia democracy)Noun
(democracies)- And the essential value and power of Democracy' consists in this,—that it combines, as far as possible, power and organization ; THE SPIRIT, MANHOOD, ''is at one with'' THE BODY, ORGANIZATION. [....] ' Democracy is Government by the People.
- The period, that is, which marks the transition from absolutism or aristocracy to democracy will mark also the transition from absolutist or autocratic methods of nomination to democratic methods.
- A century ago there was in the Old World only one tiny spot in which the working of democracy could be studied. A few of the ancient rural cantons of Switzerland had recovered their freedom after the fall of Napoleon, and were governing themselves as they had done from the earlier Middle Ages[...]. Nowhere else in Europe did the people rule.
- Everyone who wanted to speak did so. It was democracy in its purest form.
- In 1900 not a single country had what we would today consider a democracy : a government created by elections in which every adult citizen could vote.
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- As states of the human spirit democracy , righteousness, and faith have much in common and may be cultivated by the same means...
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- It must further be admitted that he provided a successful interpretation of democracy' in its philosophic aspects when he conceived '''democracy''' as a general outlook on the universe... In Bakunin's conception of ' democracy as religious in character we trace the influence of French socialism.
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- The spirit of democracy' means, above all, liberty of choice for human beings... ' democracy , in both its individual and collective forms, is the main engine of the eternal human striving for justice and prosperity.