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Show fGrm of govemmenr' yet, he had $tisfQCtory United States WCI$ Q cracy must rest so doing chief on task, he (tthe government of the Then he said categorically, law. uS In oddition he indicated the function of he defined '* government of men". 7 $Oid, thot democracy saJd, is "Demo low, and in domestic and international re:IGtions. in BLow's guard Uthe minority in 011 its rights,» for, to Democracy in a community sense 15 merely thtlt type of government which makes possible for men who dtsagre. with one another In regard to society, man, religion, eerth, and Heaven, to live side by side In peace in spite of theIr differing ideas Democracy in a community sense, there fore, Is thot type of gowrnment which weighs these differ ences, which Vies the will of the maiority as its iustlfication in doing things, bllt which ot the lame goor. the minority in all its rights. Democracy, In a ommunity sense, inevltablYI therefore, must be Q form of soc tety where the give-and-tcke is uppermost in the minds of all, where the individuQI has learned how to live with these with whom he dIsagrees with out resorting to unfa·ir advantage. Democracy, therefore, 1$ weak; it is complex; It hongs upon 0 thin thread of fair pley. From the standpoint of exacti.ng efficiency, from the standpoint of accomplishing rapidly the united will, from the standpoint of even quickly discovering that united will, it must be classIfied as G government which wiU be slow, which will be c umbersome, and which will be generolly against itself and which will ha.VGI to face critic Ism. 9 ••• Thomas then defines After internotionaUy. may be "Heve (I we Qgoinst 7 8 9 Democracy in international affairs stattng that healthful approach to C1war and disorder the solution of some any other method than that of collective wer and Ibid I disorder, if Vol. 82, p Ibid., Vol. 83, • L .£!!. p war ond disorder are as social thought of security operating os soc tol of the world1s security assumed to to diseases iIIs,u he asks, protect the world be soc 101 ills? n Soc '01 , 3807, (74th Congress, 1st Sess., Meuch 18, 1935). , 1788, (75th Congress, 1st Sen., July 15, 1937). |
