American Memory
American Memory
December 31, 2004
 
Confused About Democracy by Alan Bock
In short, the insight that freedom and the emergence of a civil society are more important than elections and the outward forms of democracy seems not to be widespread. The idea that a country can afford democracy or even representative government only after a civil society characterized by personal freedom, tolerance, and a firm commitment to liberty has been established and become part of the fabric of a society, seems not to have occurred to most so-called experts.


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