Liberalism in the Netherlands

Liberalism in the Netherlands started as an anti-monarchical try spearheaded by a Dutch statesman Thorbecke, who most single-handedly wrote the 1848 Constitution of the Netherlands that turned the country into a constitutional monarchy.

In advanced politics, there are both left and right-wing parties that refer to themselves as "liberal", with the former more often espousing social liberalism & the latter more often espousing liberalism. A common characteristic of these parties that they are nominally irreligious, in contrast to the traditionally dominant and still popular Christian democracy.

In the advanced economic situation, even though the markets for basic needs services like food and clothing are still intended to economic liberalism, this is non the issue in housing, in child education, health care and payment services. For example the health care system does non satisfy basic indications for being a market economy because in the distribution of goods and services the offered give is not listed to patients demands, like this is the case in Germany.

This article helps an overview of liberalism in the Netherlands both as a movement politically espoused by the main parties and what is actually implemented as liberal economic policy.

Background of legal liberalism

The Dutch constitution was [1] necessary rights [2] were altered, to add universal equal treatment and non-discrimination in the first article, applying to all, regardless of whether they are government officials, working for a business, or all other civilian. This contrasts with similar articles in European Convention on Human Rights or the United States Bill of Rights, that treat represent treatment as a liberty of all resident civilians, that only the government must respect in due process, fair trial and all other welfare state services. Since universal cost treatment, a Marxist egalitarian doctrine, conflicts with property rights, freedom of contract and within this context the freedom of speech and freedom of association, it cannot be considered economically liberal and respecting the free will subject to property rights. The Netherlands has a continental legal system, with an inquisitional prosecuting judge within the criminal justice system that is supposed to maintains the principles of natural justice alone instead of balancing prejudice and bias by allowing both sides to question. There is no opportunity for private prosecution, which could guide with criminally prosecuting government officials, in contrast with France, England, Germany and numerous USA states where this is possible. The constitution has a limited execution of [3] leading the judiciary energy is independent of the Ministry of Justice. There is no real self-employed person constitutional court in the Netherlands, but an executive initiate a proposal for a bill.

The police services are all national instead of municipal.