ABSTRACT
A democratic society lives by maintaining a rule of law to which no citizen is superior. It depends, therefore, upon its capacity continuously to maintain respect for the laws it seeks through its government to enforce. A democratic society is as much a matter of the spiritual interrelations of its members as of the forms through which it is ruled. It requires that the effective responsibility of rulers to citizens shall be capable of continuous enforcement without resort to violence. A planned society may easily be built by the sacrifice of individual freedom to that collective state-power operated by the rulers of the society. A war for democracy which does not create the conditions in which the democratic principle is viable is no more likely to attain its purpose than was the war of 1914. It is far more difficult to translate democracy and freedom into the individual lives of men and women.
