Essential Concepts and Principles of Democracy

Essential Concepts and Principles of Democracy

Essential principles of Democracy

Liberty

Liberty or freedom is the most essential principle of democracy which allows individuals to exercise what they desire. According to Mill (1860), we have, therefore, recognized the need for the purposes of mental well-being of mankind, freedom of opinion and freedom of expression, for four different reasons. First, every opinion silenced can, as we know with certainty, be true. To deny it is assumed to be infallible. Second, even if the opinion is suppressed error, it may contain, and often contains an element of truth, and since the general or prevailing opinion on any matter which is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only through the clash of opposing opinions that the remainder of the truth has a chance to emerge (Mill, 1860). Third, even if the conventional wisdom is not only true but it is the whole truth, if you do not allow it to be, and if in fact it is, vigorously and fiercely contested, most of his followers will accept as if it were a prejudice, with little understanding and perception of its rational foundations. Not only that, but the fourth, the very meaning of the doctrine in danger of fading or fade, and will lose its vital effect on the character and behavior of men as a dogma, an assertion will become purely formal and of no effect.

The Right to Property

The owner has the right to enjoy and dispose of things in a full and exclusive within the limits and in compliance with the obligations laid down by the legal. The right to property is that perhaps more than any other law plays one of the fundamental needs of man, to have his own space where he can freely move. This space is separate from that of other human beings, is made up of places and things where man can freely develop its own domain, without interference from other individuals. Since ancient times, this need has always been recognized by the human communities, sometimes as their absolute rule of real places, real people and even, sometimes in a milder form of constraints imposed by legal evolved (Waldron, 2012).

Today's democratic societies have always recognized full citizenship the right to property, but with certain limits, since the current state of legal development and social repugnant to think that the owner has an absolute dominion over his property, ...