The Big Picture

 To understand how the economical growth of the

bourgeoisie took them to change a system that kept
them out of the power: destroy the privileges and
defeat the absolutism.
 The Liberalism was the economic and politic theory
of the bourgeoisie; the peasants and the poor urban
classes were their weapons and the Revolution was
their way to get the power.
 Index
1. Liberalism

2. Politic Liberalism
1. Main characteristics
2. Separation of Powers or Trias Politica

3. Economic Liberalism
1. Main Characteristics
2. Adam Smith
1. Liberalism

How was the situation in the 18th century?

Unfair

Why?

Privileges and power controlled by few people

Did every group think that?

No

Which groups were more concerned about that?

Urban workers, peasants and, overall, the bourgeoisie

1. Liberalism
1. Liberalism
1. Liberalism
2. Politic Liberalism

 What?

 When?

 Where?
2. Politic Liberalism

 Who?

 Why?
2.1 Political Liberalism:
Main Characteristics
2.1 Political Liberalism:
Main Characteristics
Division of Powers

What is the proposal of

the liberalism?
Division of Powers

Pairlament Court

Elected
by
Citizens
3. Economic Liberalism

Mercantilism

Protectionism
3. Economic Liberalism

An economic
doctrine which
its main ideas
were written by
Adam Smith in
its work The
Wealth Of
Nations in
1776.
3. Economic Liberalism

Offer products

FREE MARKET
(Products price)

Demand
products
 3.2 Economic
Liberalism: Adam Smith
 3.2 Economic
Liberalism: Adam Smith
the market
The Law of Supply and
Demand
Law of Competition
There, there it is again—the invisible
hand of the marketplace giving us the
finger.