POL218Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Liberal Democracy, Religious Persecution, French Revolution
6 Apr 2020
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The right to trial; if you"re arrested you have a right to have a chance to be brought before the. Judge and have the charges read out in court (this occurred around 1620s-1640s). This is not democracy (as we know it) because of the property restriction. When we talk about liberal revolutions, we are talking about a very different set of ideas. Democracy was a package of ideas that advocated for social, economic and political equality. The us sounded like a democracy and claims it to be so but we cant say so. In 1867 you couldn"t be a part of the senate until you had ful lled property and income requirements. Liberal democracy was the form of government where citizens exercise control over leaders and decisions made by their governments. Political of ces are lled through free and fair elections. If we use this de nition of democracy, most countries don"t become fully democratic until after.
