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Britain.tv Wikipedia - Liberal (9360 words) |
 | Liberals are in favour of a pluralist system in which differing political and social views, even extreme or fringe views, compete for political power on a democratic basis and have the opportunity to achieve power through periodically held elections. |
 | Liberals in Europe are generally hostile to any attempts by the state to enforce equality in employment by legal action against employers, whereas in the United States many liberals favor such affirmative action. |
 | Liberal conservatism is a hybrid of economic liberalism and conservative social philosophy. |
| Liberalism in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1306 words) |
 | Liberalism in Australia has been notably lacking in a coherent philosophical underpinning: it is strongly pragmatic, rather than ideological, defined chiefly in antithesis to Labor. |
 | Previous Liberal party governments, especially under pressure from the Country Party to safeguard its agricultural base, have been interventionist to varying degrees; but the current climate is very much in favour of deregulation and supply-side economics. |
 | The kind of liberals in Australia who support legal gun ownership are those who hold onto classical liberal and libertarian views who are strongly supportive of all forms of legal gun onwership and oppose the 1996 and 2002 gun laws. |