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The Real Liberals and Liberalism

Source:Swarjya- the answer is what this page is about: the real Liberals.

"The liberal democratic constitution defines the democratic character of the state. The purpose of a constitution is often seen as a limit on the authority of the government. Liberal democracy emphasises the separation of powers, an independent judiciary and a system of checks and balances between branches of government. Liberal democracies are likely to emphasise the importance of the state being a Rechtsstaat, i.e. a state that follows the principle of rule of law. Governmental authority is legitimately exercised only in accordance with written, publicly disclosed laws adopted and enforced in accordance with established procedure. Many democracies use federalism, also known as vertical separation of powers, in order to prevent abuse and increase public input by dividing governing powers between municipal, provincial and national governments (e.g. Germany, where the federal government assumes the main legislative responsibilities and the federated Länder assume many executive tasks)."

From Wikipedia

This page is about distinguishing Liberals and liberalism (or Classical Liberals and classical liberalism, if you prefer) from Libertarians and libertarianism, as well as Socialists and socialism.

The reason why there are terms like classical liberal and classical liberalism, because since the Franklin Roosevelt Administration, people who anywhere else in the developed world (at least) who would be called Socialists or Social Democrats, are called Liberals in America. Even a lot of what they represent is illiberal and having nothing to do with liberal democracy and even anti-liberal democracy, even though liberalism is built off of liberal democracy.

Also because people who care called Classical Liberals today, are really Libertarians or whatever is supposed to pass as Libertarian today, even though so-called Libertarians today, are really antigovernment (instead of anti-big government) and in some cases don't even like liberal democracy.