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Sunday
11Oct2009

Duties of an individual in a democracy

You cannot have a democracy unless the man, the individual citizen, becomes more than himself in isolation and is forced through public opinion to active participation beyond that cultivated in any other form of organized society.

Source:
Frankfurter, F. (1965). Of Law and Life & Other Things That Matter. (P. B. Kurland, Ed.) Harvard University Press.

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