James Burnham. one of the philosophers in residence on the staff of the National Review has called attention in the issue of September 8. 1970. to the paradox existing in England today. Burnham quotes from the ultraliberal English New Statesman as follows: Even in British politics. there are some unmentionable truths. If democracy worked in an Athenian sense. this country would still exercise the death penalty. flog young criminals. forbid abortion. repatriate (colored) immigrants. punish homosexuals. ban strikes and abolish aid to poorer countries ... We resolve the paradox by the theory of delegated CXVI2143Part 25 democracy . . . Better the liberal elitism of the statute book than the reactionary populism of the market place.
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