5 Steps to a 5TM AP European History

(^226) › STEP 5. Build Your Test-Taking Confidence
It is a truth which admits not a doubt, that the comforts and well-being of the poor cannot be permanently secured
without some regard on their part, or some effort on the part of the legislature, to regulate the increase of their
numbers, and to render less frequent among them early and improvident marriages. The operation of the system of
poor laws has been indirectly contrary to this. They have rendered restraint superfluous, and have invited impru-
dence, by offering it a portion of the wages of prudence and industry.
David Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, 1817
4.
a) Briefly explain ONE reason that the passage
can be identified with classical liberalism.
b) Briefly describe TWO factors that explain the
rise to prominence of classical liberalism at
the time at which the passage was written.
Use the passage below to answer all parts of the question that follows.
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