R#1

Thinkers	Beliefs	How their idea’s were radical at the time	How their idea’s relate to classical liberalism
Hobbes	-people are inherently selfish -need a leviathan to ensure order and security -ruler must be accountable -people have the right to exercise reason	-people never had the opportunity to think for themselves this was new for many people	-self interest -individual rights and freedoms
Locke	-social contract -government should be directly accountable to the people -power should rest within the people	-Monarchs didn’t like the idea of not being in full control	-private property -individual rights
Montesquieu	-equality of individuals -accountability  of government -separation of power -government has 3 branches of power-executive, legislative, and judicial	-called for elimination of the 3 estates structures of French society	-economic quality
Mill	-protection of individual rights and freedoms and the promotion of individual decision making of the core societal institutions	He used his idea’s to critic the people in higher power like the government	-economic freedom -individual rights and freedoms
Ricardo	-prices should not correspond to the value to the product itself -economy should be left up to the free market	Believed that the government/ monarchs shouldn’t be tampering with the taxes and the economic money.	-economic freedom -competition
Smith	-increased the wealth of the state but not the wealth of the majority of the people within the state -work for their owns self interest in a free market system -supply and demand -laissez-faire	The idea that the state would benefit more than the people	-self interest
Dickens	-individuals had the right to work and fend for themselves -was against child labor -wanted to get rid of the poor, middle, and rich classes	-people believed status was everything and his idea’s were shocking to many people	-economic freedom -individual rights and freedoms -self interest