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The classic difficulty felt with democracy arises from the fact that democracy can never express the will of the whole people be
The classic difficulty felt with democracy arises from the fact that democracy can never express the will of the whole people be
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2014-02-27
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The classic difficulty felt with democracy arises from the fact that democracy can never express the will of the whole people because there never exists any such unchanging will(at least in any society that call itself democratic). The concept of government of the whole people by the whole people must be looked on as being in the poetry rather than in the prose of democracy; the fact of prose is that real democracy means government by some kind of dominant majority.
And the ever-present danger, repeatedly realized in fact, is that this dominant majority may behave toward those who are not of the majority in such a manner as to undermine the moral basis of the right of people, because they are people, to have some important say in the setting of their own course and in the use of their own faculties.
Other forms of government may similarly fail to respect human independence. But there is at least no contradiction in that; the underlying assumption of every kind of government by wisers and betters is that people on the whole are not fit to manage their own affairs, but must have someone else do it for them, and there is no paradox when such a government treats its subjects without respect, or deals with them on the basis of their having no rights that the government must take into account.
But democracy affirms that people are fit to control themselves, and it cannot live in the same air with the theory that there is no limit to the extent to which public power — even the power of a majority — can interfere with the lives of people.
Rational limitation on power is therefore not a contradiction to democracy, but is of the very essence of democracy as such. Other sorts of government may impose such limitations on themselves as an act of grace. Democracy is under the moral duty of limiting itself because such limitation is essential to the survival of that respect for humankind which is in the foundations of democracy. Respect for the freedom of all people cannot, of course, be the only guide, for there would then be no government. Delicate ongoing compromise is what must be looked for. But democracy, unless it is to deny its own moral basis, must accept the necessity for making this compromise and for giving real weight to the claims of those without the presently effective political power to make their claims prevail in elections.
We can infer from the passage that______.
选项
A、democracy in its true sense can scarcely be regarded as realistic
B、democracy has to give up its moral basis for proper compromise
C、democratic governments should respect the rights of the minority
D、democratic governments must weigh the claims of political inferiors
答案
A
解析
这是一道推论题。文章第一段指出:民主永远无法代表全体人民的意愿,因为永远不会有这种不变的意愿;“全民的政府应该为全民”的观念应该被看成是只存在于民主的诗歌中,而不是存在于民主的散文中;散文描述的事实是,真正的民主意味着政府被控制在某些占主导地位的多数人手中。由此可知,民主只是虚幻的,没有现实意义。A说“从其实际意义上来说,民主很少被看做具有现实意义”,这与文章的意思符合。B与最后一段最后两句话“在不断发展中寻求妥协是我们应该要做的;但是,除非民主打算否认其道德基础,它就必须承认需要做出这种妥协”的意思不符合:文中没有提到C;与D有关的信息是最后一段的最后一句话,文中是说“民主需要真正重视那些现在还没有足够政治权力使其主张在选举中占上风的人的权利”,这是指民主,不是民主政府,所以D不对。
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