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5 pages. In expanding on the statement that the Lockean tradition is the basis for the development of the dual tradition in American life, there is no question that the United States of America was built on a foundation of democracy and liberty for each and every citizen. It is by way of this infrastructure of democratic rule that the country has been able to enjoy and pursue the various constitutional rights inherent with being an American. In a country where the people are voluntarily offered the freedoms of democracy and liberty, it can be said that democracy is the privilege of the informed and the involved. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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United States of America was built on a foundation of democracy and liberty for each and every citizen. It is by way of this infrastructure of democratic rule that
the country has been able to enjoy and pursue the various constitutional rights inherent with being an American. In a country where the people are voluntarily offered the freedoms
of democracy and liberty, it can be said that democracy is the privilege of the informed and the involved. EXPLANATION OF LOCKEAN TRADITION When Locke comments on equality, he
tells us that knowledge is the perception of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas. Knowledge seemed to Locke to be nothing but the perception of the connection of
an agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of any of our ideas. He indicated that where this perception is, there is knowledge, and where it is not, there, "though we
may fancy, guess, or believe, yet we always come short of knowledge" (Locke, 1689, PG). When the Constitution was drafted in the eighteenth century, there was
a great need for the democratic process to prevail. The world was being crushed by autocratic dictatorships, and people were subject to living their lives at the mercy of
their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsically granted to every individual on the planet; however, the United States could not
concern itself with the entire world, as the founding fathers had enough to accomplish just establishing America as its own liberated and democratic country. The idea of equality, as our
forefathers originally intended it to represent, was that of the ultimate evolution of human life. The concept, which was just a seed when it was established in the United
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