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Liberal democracy

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political philosophy and form of government

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This form of government is called Democracy. Or the sovereign may restrict the government in the hands of a lesser number, so that there are more plain citizens than magistrates; and this form of government is called Aristocracy.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
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In the first place, the Sovereign may commit the charge of the government to the whole people or to the majority of the people, so that more citizens are magistrates than are mere private individuals. This form of government is called _democracy_. Or it may restrict the government to a small number; so that there are more private citizens than magistrates; and this is named _aristocracy_.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The social contract & discourses
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Inasmuch, however, as no government produces all possible beneficial effects, but all are attended with more or fewer inconveniences, and since these can not usually be combated by means drawn from the very causes which produce them, it would be often a much stronger recommendation of some practical arrangement, that it does not follow from what is called the general principle of the government, than that it does…
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
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