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. As none is different from his fellows, none can exercise a tyrannical power: men will be perfectly free, because they will all be entirely equal; and they will all be perfectly equal, because they will be entirely free. ... In "Democracy in America", Tocqueville, Richter notices, developed an argument about the advantages of a genuine political life in a free government in which he specified "the citizen rights prerequisite to such a...
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