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03 Nov 08
What Would Yoder Do?
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democracy, while certainly superior to more coercive forms of government, is nonetheless still a system in which “some men exercise power over others.”
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If we refuse the mythological explanation of democracy as a fundamentally new kind of social order, we can rejoice in the immensely increased possibilities which it provides of speaking to those who exercise power; the decentralization of authority, the election of legislators by a local constituency, and the constitutional and judicial controls on abuse of authority are all factors which oblige the men in power to listen to criticism with a greater degree of seriousness than in the age of absolutist monarchs.
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