Liberalism

•	Individual Liberty is the primary value

•	Liberal equality=Rule of Law

•	Value Pluralism, including religious toleration and freedom of speech and dissent

•	usually associated with free markets and democratic forms of government

•	neutrality of the state vis a vis particular conceptions of the good life (although this is controversial, and not universally held by all "liberals")

•	The best political institutions are those which best realize these values.