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- Title: Alternative Education Versus the Common Will.
- Author : Journal of Thought
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 197 KB
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Liberal democracy combines two fundamental political commitments: one to popular sovereignty, the other to individual liberty. And since popular sovereignty, in practice, rarely achieves unanimity, a tension between these two is built in from the outset. Citizens in a liberal democracy often find their liberty limited by a majoritarian policy designed (in part) to protect it. Theories of liberal democracy thus face an integral question: when should individual liberty triumph over the will of the majority? This question pertains to the issue of alternative education's legitimacy in a democracy at its most basic essence. Public, common education has been enshrined and protected as a necessary prerequisite to the continuation of democracy over generations while alternatives have been, at best, tolerated within the American system as a stop-gap measure for special interest groups. This article, therefore, will examine the complexity of the concept of popular sovereignty with reference to alternative education in order to determine its application and limitations regarding the maintenance of both the letter and spirit of democracy. The Deep Roots of Popular Sovereignty