I suggest, instead, judging events by the standards of constitutionalism — an ideology that asserts that human beings have certain unalienable rights that cannot be taken from them either by dictator or by the majority. Fareed Zakaria makes a good case for constitutionalism taking precedence over democracy in his book, "The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad." Or as Publishers Weekly put it in a review of the book: "Democracy is not inherently good.… It works in some situations and not others, and needs strong limits to function properly."
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:24:46 +0000
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