AP EURO FRENCH REVOLUTION
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European History [1]
Chapter 21 The Revolution in Politics 1775-1815 Liberty and equality In the eighteenth century, liberty meant human rights and freedoms and the sovereignty of the people. Liberals demanded that citizens' rights had no limits except those that assure rights to others. Revolutionary liberals believed that the people were sovereign. Equality meant equal rights and equality of opportunity. But most liberals did not extend such rights to women. "Equality" pertained to equality of opportunity and legal equality, not economic equality. The roots of classical liberalism The Classical Greek and the Judeo-Christian traditions liberalism.