![]() ![]() ![]() After a period following the collapse of the Soviet Union, when constitutional democracy spread to many countries not just in Europe but across the globe, and Francis Fukuyama declared that history had come to an end, the tide seems to have turned. W inston Churchill once famously declared: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” Underpinned by the rule of law and the popular will, democracy is the only way we can prevent the arbitrary exercise of tyrannical power: suppression of free speech curtailment or abolition of civil liberties laws passed by decree without public debate or popular approval arrest and imprisonment without trial torture and murder by unchecked agencies of the government and theft, extortion and embezzlement by politicians in power, who inevitably turn into kleptocrats when democracy is destroyed. ![]()
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