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Constant, Tocqueville, and Acton on the Enlightenment, Liberalism, and Religion

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Summary

The growing power of the centralized state loomed as the central problem for liberalism in the early nineteenth century, and the works of these three writers are a response to it. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/constant-tocqueville-and-acton-enlightenment-liberalism-and-religion