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Making Democratic Theory Democratic: Democracy, Law, and Administration after Weber and Kelsen

Posted on July 27, 2025 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2023 book by Stephen Turner and George Mazur: * The term “administrative state” is now being treated as an invention of the paranoid Right and a misunderstanding of the nature of the state itself. … Continue reading →

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How are liberalism and democracy at odds?

Posted on May 4, 2025 by Luke Ford

Grok says: “Liberalism and democracy can be at odds because liberalism emphasizes individual rights, limited government, and protections against majority rule, while democracy prioritizes majority rule and collective decision-making. Liberalism seeks to constrain state power through checks like constitutions or … Continue reading →

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Prior To The Recent Supreme Court Ruling On Presidential Immunity, The Presidency Already Had All The Foreign Policy Power Of King George III

Posted on July 7, 2024 by Luke Ford

Holly Brewer writes for The New Republic July 1, 2024: The Supreme Court Turns the President Into a King The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law. Five members … Continue reading →

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Republic vs Democracy

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Luke Ford

Firefighter John Aldieri posts: “By definition, a republic is a representative form of government that is ruled according to a charter, or constitution, and a democracy is a government that is ruled according to the will of the majority. Although … Continue reading →

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The Ideology of Democratism

Posted on September 27, 2022 by Luke Ford

Emily B. Finley writes in this 2022 book: * democratism is a hypothetical or ideal conception of democracy that is only tenuously connected to the actual, historical desires of real popular majorities. * Democratism can perhaps best be summed up … Continue reading →

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