ABSTRACT
Democracy breeds the culture of negotiation, compromise, and toleration by virtue of its institutions, and by virtue of the exchange society of which it is a part. Exchange, as in economic relations, of necessity requires bargaining and compromise. Politics and society work together to produce and reinforce the democratic culture and it is this culture that inhibits the reluctance of democratic peoples and representatives to engage in violence. Institutional constraints therefore can be of many different kinds, such as of the public will already discussed, institutional checks and balances within government, social diversity that crosscuts and cross-pressures interests, or the plethora of groups produced within a democracy that pressure and lobby representatives for or against policies and laws. The republican custom of accommodation applies only within a group who recognize one another as equals. In some oligarchic republics, such groups have included only a few hundred men.
