1. Liberty in Democracy
Let us suppose that all the members of the community take a part in the government, and that each of them has an equal right to take a part in it. ... To this ideal state democratic nations tend"2. ... In the United States, Tocqueville notices this stable equation of liberty and equality that transcends the social towards the political into democracy - etymologically translated to 'the rule of the people' – and materializes into a system where "it is the majority that governs in the name of the people"4. However, since he, like many other political philosophers...
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