POL113H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Suffrage
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By a faction he understands it as a # of citizens who are united by a common passion or interest towards the adverse rights of other citizens or to the permanent interests of the community. It"d be foolish to abolish liberty since it"s an essential to political life since it nourishes faction. No man is allowed to be a judge of his own cause since his interest would bias his judgment and corrupt his integrity. Either the existence of the same interest in a majority must be prevented or the majority having such co-existent passion/interest must be rendered by their # and local situation, unable to carry into effect schemes of oppression. A republic in which he means by a govt in which the scheme of representation takes place opens a diff prospect and promises the cure for which we"re seeking. The 2 differences b/w a democracy and a republic is the delegation of the govt to a small.
