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Religion In Democracy: Tocqueville's Defense, Gary Novak, Kelly Patterson
Religion In Democracy: Tocqueville's Defense, Gary Novak, Kelly Patterson
Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies
It is sometimes held to be paradoxical that liberal democracy has offered no sound justification of itself. For those who are citizens of liberal democracies, and therefore are concerned not only with the regime of the fatherland but a 1 so with the good regime genus, this paradox causes not only confusion. The citizen is left a so without justification for the patros: his love of the fatherland has then no rational logos. There have been various recent attempts to provide liberal democracy with the justification necessary to survive the attack of various schools. However one assesses …