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Democracy Vs. Liberty: The Telos Of Government, Ryan C. Yeazell
Democracy Vs. Liberty: The Telos Of Government, Ryan C. Yeazell
Honors Bachelor of Arts
Democracies are known for being relatively stable and ensuring freedom for their citizens. However, those assumptions are called into question by the various failures of modern democracies to both maintain authority and enshrine liberty. Are the institutional checks and balances failing to prevent some of the expected issues with governments based on popular voting? Or is there some other cause of failure outside of the institutional structures themselves?
To examine these questions, I will be comparing a few examples of failed modern democracies with arguably history’s longest lasting democratic government: the Roman Republic. Although separated by over two thousand years …