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Patrick Deneen Offers a Powerful Critique of Liberalism

Democracy Paradox

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The Importance of Representative Government in the Development of Democracy

The way in which those democratic energies are allowed to emerge is largely through the mechanisms of what we think of as modern constitutionalism. And how those people come to be selected becomes a very important part of the story. Mill thinks that the people, the demos, is actually a conservative force. But they generally want a world that's predictable, that's orderly and stable.

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