ABSTRACT
Today, the dynamics of democracy are best illustrated by the development of the social and cultural Providence State. "Economic liberalism logically leads to democracy by means of the principle of equality before the law". Political and juridical equality could not be made into the very principle underlying both political legitimacy and the social bond without simultaneously implying that action should be taken to make social and economic conditions less unequal. All social classes are integrated into the same system of universal insurance coverage; everyone pays contributions to the system and everyone is dependent on the State. This new kind of social philosophy becomes all the more imperative in that each new specific act of State intervention shapes and structures a new social milieu that contributes to the inertia of the overall providential system.
