Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order. (Ilka Chase)

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.

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