The purpose of this paper is to treat the similarly and differences of liberalism. I will use John Locke and Adam Smith to represent classical liberals. John Stuart Mill and John Maynard Keynes will be used to show contemporary liberals. John Locke         In John Locke's Second Treatise of Government he develops a theory of government as a product of a social contract, which when broken justifies the creation of a new government for the protection …showed first 75 words of 1912 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1912 total…free market society and that the government should not directly interfere in the micro economy. And lastly in individualism that we are all free, rational, equal, act only according to our own consent, and have a right to voluntary association. Concussion         In drawing this brief account of the liberal-democratic analysis of equality to         a concussion we are properly struck by the significant distance which separates         the contemporary, revisioist idea from that of its classical predecessors.16