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Plato famously opposed democracy, arguing for a 'government of the best qualified'; James Madison extensively studied the historic attempts at and arguments on democracy in his preparation for the Constitutional Convention; and Winston Churchill remarked that "No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that ...
Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter is a 2013 book from Stanford University Press by George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin. [1] [2] [3] Somin argues that people are ignorant and irrational about politics and that this creates problems for democracy. He further claims that this consideration argues in ...
No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States is a nonfiction book by Erwin Chemerinsky, published by Liveright/Norton. It contains criticism of the Constitution of the United States .
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Many voters consider Trump to be the only true danger to democracy “As we’ve seen throughout this campaign cycle, Democrats are attempting to run against Donald Trump, who hasn’t been in ...
N.C. Central University political science professor Jarvis Hall, pictured at the NCCU School of Education for a News & Observer Under the Dome: Live! podcast recording event on Monday, Oct. 21, 2024.
This idea has been discussed by various thinkers, including John Stuart Mill in On Liberty [2] and Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A tyranny of the majority can ensue when democracy is distorted either by an excess of centralization [ 5 ] or when the people abandon a wider perspective to "rule upon numbers, not upon ...
On Monday, China?s state-owned Global Times published an editorial that casts Trump as proof of democracy's inherent dangers. The Chinese government is now using Donald Trump as proof that ...