Modern Western democracy, which is embedded in the fundamental political framework of liberalism and, and thereby constrained as well as limited by its values and norms, provides legitimacy to the liberal political system because of its embodiment of equal rights of all citizens. The complex relationship between the two renders liberalism unable to justify the restrictions it imposes on democracy within its own logic, and thus to a large extent blurs the facts of Western democracy and the democracy in its general sense.
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