Answer:
Liberalism
meant different things to different people.
Political liberalism:
(i) It stood for equality before the law.
(ii) Revolutionary France marked the first political
experiment in liberal democracy in which right to vote and get elected was
granted exclusively to property-owning men.
(iii) Men without property, and all women were excluded
from political rights.
(iv) Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, women and
non-propertied men organised opposition movements demanding equal political
rights.
Economic liberalism:
(i) It stood for freedom of markets and the abolition of
state-imposed restrictions on the movement of goods and capital.
(ii) Customs Union or 'zollverein' was formed in Prussia,
joined by most of the German states.
(iii) The Union abolished tariff barriers and reduced the
number of currencies from thirty to two.
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