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In early-nineteenth-century Europe were closely allied to the ideology of liberalism. The term ‘liberalism’ derives from the Latin root liber, meaning free. Liberalism stood for freedom for the individual and equality of all before the law. It emphasized the concept of government by consent. A constitution and representative government through parliament. The right to vote and to get elected was generated exclusively to property-owning men. Men without property and all women were excluded from political rights. Women and non-propertied men and women organised opposition movements demanding equal political rights. The abolition of state-imposed restrictions on the movement of goods and capital. A merchant travelling in 1833 from Hamburg to Nuremberg to sell his goods would have to pass through 11 customs barriers and pay a customs duty of about 5% at each one of them. Obstacles to economics exchanges and growth by the new commercial classes, who argued for the creation of a unified economic territory allowing the unhindered movement of goods, people and capital. The union abolished tariff barriers and reduced the number of currencies from over thirty to two.