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| 1ecab3b | Going back to the 1700s, "liberal" meant interested in safeguarding the rights of the individual against the state; this was back when most states were monarchies and there were no bills of rights and the state could do to individuals as it pleased. In other words, "liberal," then, was kind of conservative as we would understand it today: rooted in individual liberty. But by the 1880s, liberalism would begin to concern itself not just with .. | Michael Tomasky |