Q: Why are political positions referred to as 'left' and 'right'?
**A: More than two hundred years ago, King Louis XI of France was compelled to convene a new form of parliament for the first time. While sitting at the assembly the more radical delegates took up their seats to the left of the King while their conservative counterparts took their seats to his right thus starting the practice of calling radicals as 'left' and conservatives as 'right'. Since then, liberal ideas have been referred to as from the left and conservative views as from the right.
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