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DEMOCRACY IS THE ONLY FEASIBLE SOLUTION
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- 1What is the only form of political community which offers any hope of resolving the conflict between authority and autonomy?democracy
- 2How does democracy resolve this conflict?men cannot be free so long as they are subject to the will of others, whether one man (a monarch) or several (aristocrats). But, if men rule themselves (if they are both law-givers and law-obeyers, then they can combine the benefits of government with the blessings of freedom. Rule for the people is merely benevolent slavery, whereas rule by the people is true freedom. Insofar as man participates in the affairs of the state, he is ruler as well as ruled
- 3What is the peculiar merit and moral claim of a democratic state?Mans obligation to submit to the laws stems not from the divine right of the monarch, nor from the hereditary authority of a noble class, but from the fact that he himself is the source of the laws which govern him.
- 4What natural extension does democracy attempt?a natural extension of the duty of autonomy to the realm of collective action
- 5Just as the truly responsible man gives laws to himself, and thereby binds to what he conceives to be right, was can a society of responsible men do?collectively bind themselves to laws collectively made, and thereby bind themselves to what they have together judged to be right
- 6Therefore, what is the government of a democratic state?No more than a servant of the people as a whole, charged with the execution of laws which have been commonly agreed upon
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