Constitutionalism and Democracy

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A level Politics Note on Constitutionalism and Democracy, created by kazmount on 08/09/2013.
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Lord Acton = 'Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely'.Montesquieu 'Power should be a check to power'.De Toqueville feared that individual liberty and minority rights could be crushed by THE TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY.Mill believed that democracy promotes the 'highest and most harmonious development of human capacities.

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