The Western Democratic Tradition
by Professor Mark Cooray

Prologue
Preface
Introduction
1The Original
Values and Institutions
2The Reform Ideas
3Freedom
4The Three Fundamentals
5Economic Freedom
6Limitations on Power
of Government
7Limited Government Undermined
8Limits on the power
of the Legislature
9Law based on
Individual Responsibility
10Rights and Duties
11Moral and Spiritual Roots
12Making The "New Man"
13Communism
and Democratic Socialism
14The Experience of Mankind
15Undermining Freedom and Responsibility
16 The Critical Spirit
17 The Failure to Invest in Ideas
18"Here's-a-Problem—we must do something"
19Effects of Reformist Ethos
20 No Promise of a Utopia
21Modern Reform Movements
22Coercive versus
Liberal Utopians
23A Better Future for Mankind
24.Christianity, Liberalism and Tradition
25From Bondage to Freedom
and Back
26An Epitaph
27The Exportability of the Tradition
28Epilogue
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