Editing Liberalism (section)

===[[File:Whig.png]][[File:JohnLocke.png]] 17th and 18th Centuries [[File:Usclib.png]][[File:Frencons.png]]===
The Father of Liberalism was [[File:JohnLocke.png]] [[Classical Liberalism|John Locke]], an English philosopher, physician and slave trader. Locke was a close friend of [[File:Whig.png]] [[Classical Liberalism|Anthony Ashley Cooper]], the 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, slave trader, large landowner, and the founder of the [[File:Whig.png]] [[Classical Liberalism|Whigs]]. Locke came up with, and refined, many ideas that became the core of Liberal ideology: consent of the governed, natural rights, [[File:Empiricism.png]] empiricism, and [[File:Libertarian.png]] [[Libertarianism|limited government]]. Both Locke and Shaftesbury had to flee from England due to political persecution, and Locke only returned after the [[File:Cball-Oranje.png]] [[Constitutional Monarchism|Glorious Revolution of 1688]], the first Liberal revolution in history that overthrew the [[File:Abs.png]] [[Absolute Monarchism|absolutist]] [[File:Catheo.png]] [[Catholic Theocracy|Catholic]] king, James II, establishing a [[File:Conmon.png]] [[Constitutional Monarchism|constitutional monarchy]], official consent of the governed in English law, [[File:Civlibert.png]] [[Civil Libertarianism|religious freedom for Protestants]], and the [[File:GRights.png]] right to keep and bear arms.

After [[File:Cball-Sweden.png]] Sweden's defeat in the Great Northern War in 1719, the nobility established a [[File:Parl.png]] [[Parliamentarianism|parliamentary]] liberal democracy, beginning the Age of Freedom. During this period the nobility drew inspiration from the [[File:Whig.png]] [[Classical Liberalism|Whigs]] and translated the works of [[File:JohnLocke.png]] [[Classical Liberalism|John Locke]] into Swedish. Sweden became a 2-party state, with the pro-French [[File:Cball-Sweden.png]] [[Nationalism|Hats]] competing against the pro-Russian [[File:Caps.png]] [[Agrarian Capitalism|Caps]]. During this time [[File:Klep.png]] [[Kleptocracy|corruption]] increased, eventually leading to the 1772 coup, where [[File:Gustaviii.png]] [[Enlightened Absolutism|Gustav III]] ended the Age of Freedom and reintroduced [[File:Abmon.png]] [[Absolute Monarchism|absolute monarchy]]. Whilst ending an early liberal state, [[File:Gustaviii.png]] [[Enlightened Absolutism|Gustav]] was influenced by [[File:Montesquieu.png]] [[Enlightenment Thought|Montesquieu]].