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Liberal democracy, also called Western-style democracy, [1] or substantive democracy, [2] is a form of government that combines the organization of a democracy with ideas of liberal political philosophy.
Major examples include Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal and New Nationalism, Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, Harry S. Truman's Fair Deal, John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society. In the first half of the 20th century, both major American parties had a conservative and a liberal wing.
The liberal party insists that the Government has the definite duty to use all its power and resources to meet new social problems with new social controls—to ensure to the average person the right to his own economic and political life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [30] In 1960, John F. Kennedy defined a liberal as follows:
Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).
The United States was the first nation to be founded on the liberal ideas of John Locke and other philosophers of the Enlightenment, based on inalienable rights and the consent of the governed with no monarchy and no hereditary aristocracy, and while individual states had established religions, the federal government was kept from establishing ...
As Blinkhorn argues, the liberal themes were ascendant in terms of "cultural pluralism, religious and ethnic toleration, national self-determination, free market economics, representative and responsible government, free trade, unionism, and the peaceful settlement of international disputes through a new body, the League of Nations".
Nicaragua: the liberal character of the right-wing Constitutionalist Liberal Party (Spanish: Partido Liberal Constitucionalista, former member LI) is disputable. (Main article: Liberalism in Nicaragua). Panama: the Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement (Spanish: Partido Movimiento Liberal Republicano Nacionalista) is a center-right liberal party.
Liberal Republican Party: 1871–1875 Classical liberalism [83] Merged into: Republican Party and Democratic Party: 1871 1875 Anti-Monopoly Party: 1873–1881 Progressivism [84] Merged into: People's Party (1892) 1874 1886 Greenback Party: 1879–1889 Currency reform [85] Merged into: People's Party (1892) 1874 1884 Readjuster Party: 1881 ...