| Sub-Sections:
|
The
project is committed to the view that democracy is considerably
more than a form of government; that while the institutions
and machinery of democracy may be important, the spirit
of the enterprise is contained in its ideas; a complex
network of ideas including freedom, consent and dissent,
equality and equity, due process, toleration, privacy
and the common good. The goal is to assist students
understand the ideas: to consider their origins and
their evolution, the tensions between and among them,
their relevance in the structuring and restructuring
of civic life, their value in molding the principles
of how we might live together, in neighbourhoods, in
national states, in the global community. |
