"Rights are not the language of democracy. Compromise is what democracy is about. Rights are the language of freedom, and are absolute because their role is to protect our liberty. By using the absolute power of freedom to accomplish reforms of democracy, we have undermined democracy and diminished our freedom."

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Source : Philip K. Howard (2011). “The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America”, p.171, Random House

Philip K. Howard

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