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Along with liberal and conservative, you have probably heard the terms "left" applied to liberals and "right" applied to conservatives. where did these terms come from?

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The French Revolution

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The terms ´left´ and ´right´ date from the French Revolution, where the members of the National Assembly would sit accordingly to their own views on the monarchy; those whose views aligned with the dismantling of Louis XVI´s reign would sit on the left, while those loyal to the monarch would sit on the right.

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