LCW Heywood Liberal rights
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- Equal Rights and Opportunities
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- Equality of Opportunity
- Recognises that some individuals are born with disadvantages that cannot be overcome by their own efforts.
- A moral principle that we are all entitled to equal life changes.
- Government by Consent
- People should have regular opportunities to express their consent, or indeed to withhold it.
- More than regular free elections use of referendums when any major change to the power or system of government is proposed.
- State must tolerate the free expression of public opinion, even if it challenges the basis of government.
- Limited Government
- Government should operate within strict boundaries.
- If not limited government is likely to encroach upon the freedom and the private lives of its citizens.
- Liberals fear the exercise of arbitrary power.
- Democratic systems may simply become the tyranny of the majority, to detriment legitimate authorites.
- Tendency for power to become concentrated in too few hands.
- Equality of Opportunity
- All distinct groups in society are entitles to the same rights; discrimination against groups should be outlaws.
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- Pluralism
- A society in which there is tolerance of many different beliefs, movements and faiths.
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- Equality of Opportunity
- Recognises that some individuals are born with disadvantages that cannot be overcome by their own efforts.
- A moral principle that we are all entitled to equal life changes.
- Government by Consent
- People should have regular opportunities to express their consent, or indeed to withhold it.
- More than regular free elections use of referendums when any major change to the power or system of government is proposed.
- State must tolerate the free expression of public opinion, even if it challenges the basis of government.
- Limited Government
- Government should operate within strict boundaries.
- If not limited government is likely to encroach upon the freedom and the private lives of its citizens.
- Liberals fear the exercise of arbitrary power.
- Democratic systems may simply become the tyranny of the majority, to detriment legitimate authorites.
- Tendency for power to become concentrated in too few hands.
- Equality of Opportunity
- It suggests a political parties and pressure groups are free to operate and have access to decision making processes.
- Modern liberal democracies are pluralist in nature, while totalitarian regimes inhibit or destroy pluralism.
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