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Politics : SI Member Vote 2004/SubjectMarks Only For Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MichaelSkyy who wrote (86)	8/7/2004 4:40:05 PM
From: Rarebird	Respond to of 812

>I realize your a "Rarebird" and all> I've come to realize that Liberalism is a strange and powerful political term because it is continuously used but rarely defined. Isn't that typical? In Western societies liberal often connotes "open-minded." It is also used as a synonym for "radical". Liberalism tends to be equated with welfare-state politics; that is, the idea that the state has a responsibility for ensuring the social welfare of its people, as in the "New Deal" or the "Great Society". Basically, liberalism, as I see it, is a theory about individual rights, freedom, choice, and privacy. It articulates the differentiation between church and state, family and economy, public and private; it conceptualizes a sphere of separateness for the individual. The Heart of the Difference between Liberal and Conservative lies in the origin of Law. For a Liberal, Laws are creative and originally made up by the Human-All-To Human. Most Laws, according to the Liberal, come into being and pass away like life. For a Conservative, Laws are like dogmatic divine structures that remain forever, like God exists.