The Ethical Paradox of Democratic Leadership

Democracy is arguably ethically superior to other political systems because democratic openness fosters truth-telling as a public value, yet democratic citizens typically distrust their representatives and suspect them of peddling lies or half-truths. This paradox arises because democratic rulers are conceived as servants of a sovereign people who may replace them by means of elections. Servants must often expediently and hypocritically tell the sovereign what it wants to hear rather than unpalatable truths. Yet, popular sovereignty provides a key to distinguishing those lies that democrats will tolerate and those they will not, namely, any whose tendency or intention is to usurp the sovereignty of the people.

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