In Search of European Liberalisms by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2019-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

In a certain sense, they were right: the expected Revolution came and was a clear victory for ‘liberal principles’. The Charter was secured and absolutism was defeated. The new king, Louis-Philippe, accepted the principle of national sovereignty, replacing the white banner of the Bourbons with the Tricolour as France’s national flag. But the celebrations would be short-lived. In power, liberals soon splintered into disputing factions unable to agree on fundamental issues. They argued over everything from the expansion of the suffrage to the size of the bureaucracy, the value of centralization, the advantages or disadvantages of associations, and on economic, foreign and religious policy. The 1830 Revolution was, indeed, a ‘decisive moment for French liberalism’,61 as Pierre Rosanvallon has suggested, but it was not because French liberals opted for a large-state solution (as he and others have proposed), but because they could not agree on what they stood for.

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