‘Ideas of national unity in the early nineteenth century Europe were closely allied to the ideology of liberalism’. Support the statement with arguments. Liberalism

  • Derived from’ liber’ means free
  • Stood for freedom for all and equality for all before the law
  • Politically -Govt, by consent
  • Universal suffrage, right to vote for all
  • French revolution stood for the end of autocracy and clerical privileges, a constitution and representative govt, through parliament.
  • Struggles for equal political rights.
  • Economically, inviolability of private property
  • Freedom of markets and abolition of state restrictions.
  • Any other relevant point