Historians have defined the nature of liberalism in a variety of ways. Some feel liberalism is a cultural attitude; others believe it is the ideology of the rising bourgeoisie, many explaining it as opposition to excessive state power and a coherent body of principles based upon the idea of individual freedom. However, the concept of Social liberalism locates middle ground between uninhibited classical liberalism and more extreme ideologies. More a fusion of individual rights and …showed first 75 words of 1701 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1701 total…while sustaining individual liberty. Likewise, in the areas of individual rights, freedoms and economic equality, the social-liberals are vindicated in their quest for reinterpretation. Through welfare some liberty will be sacrificed, but in this way, equality imposed in the right amount can it strike a satisfying balance with liberty. Essentially, social liberalism demands no more that the conclusion of the search to put flesh on the goal of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."