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What then is the relationship between democracy and liberty? I am, of course, talking about the kind of liberty that means not violating the basic rights of anyone. (There is freedom or liberty of the kind that has nothing to do with rights but concerns so enabling one that he or she can do things. That kind of freedom is secured through productivity, by providing oneself - or, as in welfare sates, being provided with by others - with various resources that make it possible to do things.) Can democracy even exist as a procedure in a society that fully committed to liberty, or, rather, to respect and protection of the right to do what one wants?
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Tibor R. Machan, Libertarianism for and against

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