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... decisionmaking, equal rights, personal freedom and the alluring possibility of permanent peace. Democracy was seen as power devolved towards the people, and so inaccessible to would-be tyrants of the Genghis Khan type. It has often been ...
... decisionmaking, equal rights, personal freedom and the alluring possibility of permanent peace. Democracy was seen as power devolved towards the people, and so inaccessible to would-be tyrants of the Genghis Khan type. It has often been ...
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... decision-making, why then has war not been abolished long ago? War is an obvious threat to our very survival so its abolition is perhaps the greatest challenge we face. Yet – war persists! War loses the argument but continues to ...
... decision-making, why then has war not been abolished long ago? War is an obvious threat to our very survival so its abolition is perhaps the greatest challenge we face. Yet – war persists! War loses the argument but continues to ...
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... decision-making and taxes. A small community living on the land, a rural community such as Tolstoy set up to put his ideas into practice, would have neither the resources nor the knowledge to attend to these wider needs. In such a ...
... decision-making and taxes. A small community living on the land, a rural community such as Tolstoy set up to put his ideas into practice, would have neither the resources nor the knowledge to attend to these wider needs. In such a ...
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... decisions – giving decisionmaking power to elected officials was considered by the ancient Athenians to take away the power of the people, effectively making the state an oligarchy. (History of Democracy, Wikipedia) A selected executive ...
... decisions – giving decisionmaking power to elected officials was considered by the ancient Athenians to take away the power of the people, effectively making the state an oligarchy. (History of Democracy, Wikipedia) A selected executive ...
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