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We have become accustomed, today, to seeing our own societies as the pinnacle of human achievement because we have reached a settlement which once appeared impossible: a society governed not by force but by opinion. The promise of a liberal democracy is that the weight of the majority ought to be greater than that of the strong and that persuasion should reign where coercion once governed human affairs.

I am a complete fool. Nobody had come to break down the door yet, but I was certain they would. I waited for them, curled up on the bed like a child awaiting punishment, sweating yet somehow shivering at the same time. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract lay open beside me. ‘Whoever refuses to obey the General Will shall be compelled to do so by the entire body; this means nothing less than that he will be forced to be free.’

The runner-up of the annual literary prize - given to the best original responses to a quotation from the man's works - has been announced

Calls for de León’s resignation have come from all sides. Still, the councilmember said that he would not step down.

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