(n.) The principles of the liberals in politics or religion; opposed to conservatism; specifically, the principles of the Liberal party.
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Conservatism, Liberalism, Machtpolitik, Realpolitik, Republicanism, Tammany Hall, Toryism, Whiggery, Whiggism, bias, bossism, career politics, clannishness, clanship, cliqueyness, cliquishness, cliquism, confrontation politics, consensus politics, denominationalism, discrimination, eclecticism, economics in action, empirical politics, esprit de corps, ethnocentricity, exclusiveness, faction, factionalism, favoritism, inclination, inequality, interest, involvement, kid-glove politics, leaning, machine politics, nepotism, one-sidedness, parti pris, partiality, partisan politics, partisanry, partisanship, party spirit, peanut politics, petty politics, politics, polity, pork-barrel politics, power politics, practical politics, preference, preferential treatment, pressure-group politics, reform politics, schismatism, sectarianism, sectarism, sectionalism, silk-stocking politics, syncretism, undetachment, undispassionateness, unneutrality, ward politics
