... 's" (Barber, 6). It is through citizen participation that the society's representative government can be controlled, because it is in the name of liberty that individual will become active in political discussions. Alexis Tocqueville captured the relation between self-interested action and democratic citizenship, " As soon as several of the inhabitants of the United States have taken up an opinion or a feeling which ... ...

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