The Scottish Liberal Democrats seek to build, as well as safeguard a free and open Scottish society, balancing the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community.
Liberty lobbies to protect the basic rights and freedoms through the courts, in Parliament and in the throughout the United Kingdom, through a combination of public campaigning, test case litigation and policy analysis.
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Even though Enlightenment social and political theory introduced radically new ideas such as checks and balances, the social contract and individual liberty, most of the philosophes believed in monarchical government.
