Democracy is incomplete without freedom True or False
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Answer:
true
Explanation:
because democracy is incomplete without freedom
ANSWER.
Ture
Explanation:
Democracy is not incomplete without freedom. The goal of all forms of government is order, not freedom.
Freedom is both an impossibility and undesirable. We don’t want people around us to be free to steal, kill, lie, etc. We create and enforce rules to discourage bad behavior and/or to promote socially beneficial behavior.
One of the responses below points out the Founders did not want democracy. That is correct. The Founders wanted minority rule. Not just any “minority.” They gave disproportionate power to the wealthy. While Madison and others claimed that republican government is to protect minority rights, in general, that claim is contradicted by the fact that most people did not have political rights (women, slaves, native Am., many poor people). The point was to protect the wealth of the wealthy minority.
Back to freedom… Even libertarians, who most stridently claim to support freedom, do not do so. Libertarians want property and personal safety protected. That requires limits on what we do, not freedom. Part of the problem is that many people assume that only government takes away freedom. Private power also obstructs most people from doing what they want. If you don’t have significant property, which is true for the majority of people, you are basically forced to work for someone who tells you what, when, and how you act under their employ. The fiction is that employment is “voluntary.” Work is only voluntary for those who already have more wealth than they need.