My second observation would be this: many among those who defended the adoption of a majoritarian government proposed to think about the institutional system in connection with the social organization of their community. In this respect, they differed from their liberal opponents, who proposed a seemingly selfsustaining institutional system. The majoritarians believed, as Robert Dahl put it, that the liberal view “exaggerate[d] the importance, in preventing tyranny, of specified checks to governmental officials by other specified governmental officials,” underestimating, thus, the importance of social checks and balances (1956: 22). They wanted to know what economic and social arrangements were most hospitable to selfgovernment, assuming that substantive social and economic inequalities would make the people incapable of exercising the independent judgment citizenship required (Sandal 1996).
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