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Democracy gives a new status to the individual, that is, to every person as a
person. He is invested with active as well as passive rights. He is protected
against power and he is endowed with power, the power to share equally with
every other ...
Democracy gives a new status to the individual, that is, to every person as a
person. He is invested with active as well as passive rights. He is protected
against power and he is endowed with power, the power to share equally with
every other ...
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Democracy then does not set up “the liberty of the individual” but the liberty of the
citizen. His rights as a person are incorporated in his citizenship. His citizenship
sustains and affirms his claims as a person, his quality as a human being.
Democracy then does not set up “the liberty of the individual” but the liberty of the
citizen. His rights as a person are incorporated in his citizenship. His citizenship
sustains and affirms his claims as a person, his quality as a human being.
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No longer disciplined by the strong sanctions of old-time authority, no longer
enveloped in an all-pervading atmosphere of common customs and common 75 -
standards, the individual is under particular temptation, which the educative The
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No longer disciplined by the strong sanctions of old-time authority, no longer
enveloped in an all-pervading atmosphere of common customs and common 75 -
standards, the individual is under particular temptation, which the educative The
...
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Contents
Our Neglected Heritage | 3 |
Liberty Equality and Fraternity | 12 |
The Rule of the People | 22 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Ramparts We Guard Weil lectures on American citizenship |
| Authors | Robert Morrison MacIver, Robert Morrison Mac Iver |
| Edition | 3, reprint |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 152 pages |
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