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Why America's obsession with rights is wrong

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Importance of Citizens in a Deliberative Democracy

In your book, you talk about the role of juries and local democratic institutions. It really struck accord with me as some other reading i've been doing about the founding erra. This is species of political philosophy that traces its intellectual lineage back to democratic rome. Who gets included in this vision of an ideal deliberative citizen? You certainly weren't women and black people at the time. There's also a problem of scale.

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