He insisted that the state should be supreme over the church and demanded universal religious toleration, abolition of censorship, lenient punishment of criminals, and a strong state acting only under general rules of law against forces obstructive of social progress and individual liberty. ... Rousseau objected to the network of voluntary, private groups that many liberals considered essential to the movement. ... As suffrage steadily widened in the 19th century, with the successive reform acts in Britain in 1832, 1867, 1884, and 1885, many liberals became concerned chiefly with preserving th...

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It is a process in which society experiences social and economic change , particularly in the form of trade of commodities, services, capital and technology. ... The French Revolution was an influential period of social and political upheaval inspired by liberal and radical ideas. ... This Era was driven by increasingly integrated financial and corporate networks stretching around the world, such as that of multi-national companies. ... Post-Colonial globalisation is predicated on a liberal financial and political order that underpins global financial systems, security-military networks and ...

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Cunningham and Flew appear to attempt to deal with this aspect in their article, drawing on Marxist elements stemming from the Enlightenment, such as their consideration of the impact of commercialisation on the production of Australian media, they do perhaps neglect to consider the selective demographic- that is upper-middle class, white educated male- of "non-commercial" media channels, which thus, purposely or not, manage to parallel the social atmosphere of the "bourgeoisie" public domain of the Salons, which developed as a result of Enlightenment thinking. ... They view it as a non-commer...

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