If any ideal is to be widely and consensually recognized as the architrave of democracy, this is freedom. Beyond the different angles taken to analyze the conditions that make first possible and secondly functioning a democracy, liberal thinkers have been unison in saying that democracy could not exist without freedom. Even more demanding, democracy is deemed to rise in contexts that contain some “seeds” of guarantees protecting fundamental individual freedoms from the potential abuse of power handled by rulers and public officers. This is the ultimate goal of those actions that put into motion the constitutionalism as principled idea
Piana, D., Morlino, L. (2020). Freedoms. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
Freedoms
Piana, Daniela
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2020
Abstract
If any ideal is to be widely and consensually recognized as the architrave of democracy, this is freedom. Beyond the different angles taken to analyze the conditions that make first possible and secondly functioning a democracy, liberal thinkers have been unison in saying that democracy could not exist without freedom. Even more demanding, democracy is deemed to rise in contexts that contain some “seeds” of guarantees protecting fundamental individual freedoms from the potential abuse of power handled by rulers and public officers. This is the ultimate goal of those actions that put into motion the constitutionalism as principled ideaI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
