Practice question · Multiple choice
Liberals in 1848 generally wanted a franchise limited by property rather than universal suffrage. Why is that consistent with their principles rather than a betrayal of them?
Hints
- Ask what liberals thought they were protecting, and from whom.
- The June Days in Paris show liberals fighting the people they had just been allied with.
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B. Government by the propertied and educated, safe from both monarchs and crowds
Why
Liberalism in this period is a doctrine about lawful, limited, constitutional government, not about popular sovereignty. Property was taken as the guarantee of the independence needed to vote well. The June Days make the logic visible: the same men who overthrew a king in February shot down Parisian workers in June without changing their principles.
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