Classical liberals held the believes that the government should be for thoughts who were governed and held property. Inaddision that the governments only role should be to protect peoples property and shouldn't interfere in any other part of peoples lives.
Contemporary liberals believe that the government should take a much more active role in the lives of the governed both to better society and to protect it form fluctuations of the business cycle.
All liberals believe that government should be held responsible to the governed to serve there secular purposes. That capitalism is the corner stone of the free market society and that the government should not directly interfere in the micro economy. And lastly in individualism that we are all free, rational, equal, act only according to our own consent, and have a right to voluntary association.
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