Word: lockean
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...Democracy, of course, would not exist without the right to vote. The ability to participate in one’s government is an essential check on corruption and ensures that the ruling power serves the interests of those ruled. In a Lockean sense, it also represents the consent of the people that defines civil government. But people have forgotten that there is another right essential to American democracy, nearly as important in what it symbolizes: the right not to vote...
...Frenchman in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, who first thought in terms of ‘American exceptionalism.’ Through decades and world wars, this term has endured: The United States, some argue, differs qualitatively from all other nations on earth. Built upon the three Lockean natural rights–life, liberty, and property–the 13 states became an enlightened republic, with an ever-expanding border and strong checks and balances to prevent tyranny. These days, the European Union (EU) is challenging that uniqueness with an even more ambitious expansion program...