Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each feature by whether it belongs to LIBERALISM or to DEMOCRACY.
Groups: Liberalism · Democracy
- Entrenched individual rights
- Universal adult suffrage
- Independent courts constraining the executive
- Separation of powers
- Equal weight for every vote
- Majority rule through elections
Hints
- One column limits what power may do; the other decides who exercises it.
- Anything about who votes belongs to the second.
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Liberalism: Entrenched individual rights, Separation of powers, Independent courts constraining the executive
Democracy: Universal adult suffrage, Majority rule through elections, Equal weight for every vote
Why
The columns can and did exist separately, which is why "liberal democracy" is a compound rather than a redundancy. The two can also conflict: entrenched rights are precisely limits on what a majority may decide, and that tension is a permanent feature rather than a defect.
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