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[QUOTE]Originally posted by JeffKardde: [QB] Omega, While those are how many liberal/conservative ideals are defined today, that does not mean they're how they were defined in the past. *** Liberal - a. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry b. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded Conservative - a. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change. *** The DoI and the Constitution were liberal documents at the time because they were NOT limited to the established attitude of rule by monarch. Very much, those documents, the ideas they were based on, etcetra, were EXTREMELY liberal for their time. By definition, the Civil Rights Act was a very liberal document, and Conservatives tended to oppose it. Mind you, this is not an attack on today's Republican Party (which tends to made up of mostly conservatives). Liberal minded people supported the CRA, Conservative minded people (opposed to change) didn't. [i]How the heck does freeing slaves and letting everyone vote increase the power of the government? It doesn't, and is thus not a liberal idea[/i] Um, Omega, I don't know what your definition of liberal is. I can safely say it is incorrect. While many liberals do support a bigger gov't, that hardly means that liberal ideals can ONLY be those associated with having a bigger government. It's like saying you have to support the NRA to be a Conservative. You don't, it's just one issue of many and of a completely different ideology. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was liberal precisely because it challenged the concept of segregation, etc. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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