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PeepinGoodArgs
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The American Conservative: If Your Side Wins, Do You Care How the Winner Was Selected?
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/if-your-side-wins-do-you-care-how-the-winner-was-selected/The great constitutionalists, from Aristotle to Montesquieu to Madison, believed that the populace should have a voice, but they also thought, with Cicero, that the well-being of the people was the highest law. Survival and flourishing is most important, not pandering to popular passions.
Any small “r” republican knows that a good society divides up power among authorities, repositories, and mysteries, such that all are checked and balanced; neither the bounder nor the mobile vulgus can become tyrannical. Pluralist theory seeks both safety and stability in multiplicity. The wisdom of crowds—and brokering institutions.
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