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In general, liberals favour [[constitution]]al government and some form of [[representative democracy]]. Liberals at various times have embraced both [[constitutional monarchy]] and [[republic]]an government. They are generally opposed to any but the milder forms of [[nationalism]], and generally stand in contrast to [[conservatives]] by their [[tolerance]] and in more readily embracing [[multiculturalism]].
Furthermore they generally favour [[freedom of speech]], [[freedom of the press]], and other [[civil liberties]], [[human rights]] in general. Though the degree of their commitment to this is not necessarily absolute: for example, many liberals accept, or even support, limits on [[hate speech]], in order not to be tolerant towards [[intolerance]]. Nineteenth-century liberals nearly all believed in free markets and limited government intervention in the [[Economics|economy]]. Liberal parties differ now in the degree they stay close to this tradition, but even American liberals tend to believe in a smaller role for government than would be supported by most [[social democracy|social democrats]].
All liberal parties are [[secular]], but they differ on [[anti-clericalism]]. In most latin countries, liberal parties tend to be very [[anti-clerical]].
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