liberalism
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- n a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution
- n an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market
- The inability to spend money has reached America's big cities, and it has done to liberalism there what it did to national liberalism a decade ago.
- We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.
- Traditional liberalism died there because Americans who had once associated it with order came to associate it with disorder instead.