Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Miller David

Author:Miller, David [Miller, David]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-06-25T16:00:00+00:00

Second, the UN Declaration includes a strong right of political participation. Everyone, it says, has a right to take part in the government of his country, and it goes on to say that this entails regular elections, universal and equal suffrage, and the secret ballot or its equivalent. Once again this is a right that liberals will applaud, and as we saw in the last chapter there are good reasons for wanting those who wield power to be democratically accountable to the people as a whole. But if we are talking about human rights, the question we must ask is whether such a right is really an essential component of a decent human life. For millennia human societies have existed in the absence of such democratic rights, and although by our standards all of them were imperfect, it would be hard to claim that they uniformly failed to provide tolerable conditions of life for their members.

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