Justice and the Common Good According to St. Thomas Aquinas | Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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What's Interesting About Voting?
Voting represents a unique instance in which individual citizens exercise a kind of right of the proof. They act on behalf of the political common good for the sake of individuals in the whole. In democracy almost forces or should force voters to look beyond their own particular interests, to look specifically at the good of the whole. But in fact we're failing as voters to rise to this kind of act that portrays a certain weakness in the health of life and nation itself.
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