Which one of the following assertions is not true about the liberal nationalists of Europe?

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They stood for freedom for the individuals and equality of all before the law.

They emphasised the concept of government by the consent of the people.

They supported universal suffrage and denied the right to private property.

They stood for the freedom of markets and abolition of state imposed restriction on the movement of goods and capital

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The assertion is not true about the liberal nationalists of Europe as they supported universal suffrage and denied the right to private property.
Since the French Revolution, liberalism has stood for the abolition of despotism and clerical privileges, the establishment of a constitution, and the establishment of representative government through parliament. Liberalism advocated individual liberty and equality for the new middle classes before the law. Politically, it emphasised the concept of consent-based government. Nineteenth-century liberals also emphasised private property. However, equality before the law did not always imply universal suffrage. The power to vote and be elected was extended solely to property-owning males in revolutionary France, the first political experiment in liberal democracy. However, political rights were denied to men without property and to all women.

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