Full Idea
Liberalism attaches fundamental value to leaving individuals as free as possible … - but there is another fundamental value implicit in this idea - the equal status of the participants in the practice. By this I mean that they all have the same rights.
Gist of Idea
Liberalism asserts maximum freedom, but that must be equal for all participants
Source
John Charvet (Liberalism: the basics [2019], Intro)
Book Reference
Charvet,John: 'Liberalism: the basics' [Routledge 2019], p.-3
A Reaction
Libertarian liberalism (e.g. Nozick) only asserts the fundament principle of freedom, but such a society swiftly deprives most of its members of those very freedoms. Egalitarian Liberalism should be our default political ideology.