Liberalisms generally subscribe to an ideological platform that the individual is sovereign as John Stuart Mill describes it, and the rights of the individual are infinitely more important than the rights of the government. The debate with liberalisms seems to arise from the fact that it does not pay particular attention to the role the individual plays as a member of society – a society that cannot function without unity, self-preservation, and general identification by those members of their responsibility to the overall welfare of society. One can deduce that liberalisms generally do not give as much attention to this notion of a "social fabric" as outlined by Edmund Burke but that is not to say that liberalisms' overall goal is not the welfare of society as a whole.
While neoclassical liberalism tends to recognize that society and the individual are benefited by a smaller federal government and less government intrusion on the individual, it usually favors economic......

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Title: Welfare Liberalism
Approximate Word Count: 1444
Approximate Pages: 6 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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