Liberty, security and the degenerative cycle of democracy

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

Unfortunately, modern liberals have long misrepresented and misused the foundational principles of liberalism, in order to claim that the fundamental function of every democratic state is the pursuit of its citizens’ liberty, as well as to viciously attack all states and leaders that do not consider liberty to be sacrosanct. Via an appeal to the essential works of liberalism and realism, this paper has thoroughly contradicted the claims of modern liberalism and has definitively argued that security, not liberty, is the fundamental purpose of every state. Furthermore, this paper has comprehensively analyzed the USA, in order to demonstrate that, if a state sacrifices the liberty of its citizenry in order to maintain its national security, then the state’s actions are not merely just and ethical vis-à-vis its citizenry, but, rather, fulfill the state’s fundamental, protective, function and are, in fact, an inevitable, benevolent, aspect of the state’s existence.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISSN: 1857-9760
• Umfang: Seite(n): 60-74
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, 2(1)

Klassifikation und Themen

• Thema: Politikwissenschaft ; Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Politikwissenschaft ; politisches System ; Tocqueville, A. ; Liberalismus ; Freiheit ; Demokratie ; Freiheitsrecht ; Locke, J. ; Machiavelli, N. ; USA ; Montesquieu ; Sicherheit ; politische Ideologie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Barclay, William
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-47093-5
• Rechteinformation: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 21.06.2024, 16:26 MESZ