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First-past-the-post is the electoral system used for the UK General Election. The UK is divided into constituencies and each citizen gets one vote. The candidate in each constituency with the most votes b...

Liberals are committed to constitutionalism due to their belief that in order to prevent a government from becoming overly powerful, there needs to be some kind of check to that power. Constitutions provi...

Parliamentry and Presidential systems are two of the most common governmental systems used. The two oldest and most prominent examples of these systems are the British and American systems respectively. T...

Liberalism is a political ideology that enshrines liberty through a state that protects rights, equality before the law, capitalism, individualism and government by consent, as some of th...

Both Classical Liberals such as John Locke and Neo-Liberals such as Robert Nozick have similar views on State intervention into the lives of its individual citizens. Both strains of liberalism believe tha...