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The phrase '''Classical liberalism''' is used in standard academic sources to mean early liberalism, whose adherents argued for government by consent of the governed and for an end to state interference in the economy<ref>http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/339173/liberalism/237338/Classical-liberalism</ref> and sometimes with particular emphasis on the liberalism of [[Jacksonian democracy]] in the 19th Century, which stressed [[laissez-faire]] economics and [[strict constructionism]]<ref>William J. Novak, "The Not-So-Strange Birth of the Modern American State: A Comment on James A. Henretta's 'Charles Evans Hughes and the Strange Death of Liberal America'", Law and History Review 24, no. 1 (2006)</ref>.

The phrase "classical liberalism" is also used to describe a form of liberalism in which the government does not provide social services or regulate industry and banking, and followers of this brand of classical liberalism today often claim that early liberals shared these beliefs<ref>"People who call themselves classical liberals today tend to have the basic view of rights and role of government that Jefferson and his contemporaries had." [http://www.ncpa.org/pub/what-is-classical-liberalism]</ref>