The Challenge of Democracy to Despotism: Benjamin Constant and Alexis de Tocqueville
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.espo.13201Keywords:
Benjamin Constant, Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy, Despotism, Dictatorship, FreedomAbstract
This article is based on the research of how Constant and Tocqueville correlate Democracy and Rule of Law or with a form of political organization based on the division of powers and on legality; when the said correlation is not brought about in a reasonable way then Democracy turns into its opposites: tyranny, dictatorship and despotism.
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