ABSTRACT
The women over the age of 30 were given the vote that democracy would finally begin to embrace them. Indeed, it seems more to be representative of the way in which many literary politicians, and certainly understood that in some sense all authority is a form of despotism. Although the literary politician's arguments against democracy now evoke a sense of distasteful elitism, they require our continuing attention, unless we are arrogant enough to claim that we have ridden over the Niagara Falls of democracy all the way to the bottom, successfully. Resistance and opposition to democracy now are described in the outlaw context of terrorist insurgency, the extinction of which has become a primary goal of both American and British foreign policy. In his discussion of Mills concept of individual autonomy, the central focus of On Liberty, Capaldi explains that for Mill, whereas liberty refers to external constraints, freedom refers to an internal condition that we have identified as autonomy.
