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Quotes from The Ways of Judgment — Oliver O'Donovan

b. 1945

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One could almost say that there is only one political question worth asking about liberal democracy: how firmly are the two elements, political freedom and and electoral legitimation, bound together? Is their conjunction a matter of necessity? Or is it merely the product of a peculiar socio-ecological niche, perhaps too fragile or too specialized to transplant?

The Ways of Judgment (2005)

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