Overview

• Democratic nation states, ‘Social Democracies’, of the world today are systems by which the majority (or at least a plurality) dictates which laws a society will adopt. In democracy, power and popular whim supersede principles.
  • Such democracy is simply the tyranny of the majority, in which the minority are subjected against their will to a moral code they disagree with. This violates the Legal Prinicple.
  • No one may breach the Legal Principle. Individuals cannot delegate rights they do not have, collectively or otherwise.

Local democracy

• Democracy is not always incompatible with freedom. There are many things that can be voted on that don’t entail aggressing against others. Loca