Spain's Liberals are a narrowly based elite.…
1840 CE to 1851 CE
Their abstract idealism and concern for individual liberties contrasts sharply with the paternalistic attitudes of Spain's rural society.
There is no monolithic liberal movement in Spain, but anticlericalism, the touchstone of liberalism, unifies the factions.
They theorize that the state is the sum of the individuals living within it and that it can recognize and protect only the rights of individuals, not the rights of corporate institutions, such as the church or universities, or the rights of the regions as separate entities with distinct customs and interests.
Because only individuals are subject to the law, only individuals can hold title to land.
As nothing should impede the development of the individual, so nothing should impede the state in guaranteeing the rights of the individual.
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