libralism and constitutionalism

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 Why do liberals fear power and advocate constitutionalism?

Liberals fear power for many reasons such as it can lead to tyranny of the majority and it also can corrupt those in power. So they advocate constitutionalism to keep limits on the government so that they don’t become corrupt and to powerful.

Liberals fear power because they feel this could lead to tyranny of the majority. Tyranny of the majority is giving to much power to the majority and there agenda will become more provident and important than the minoritys who will not be heard, so this is why many liberals supported the retention of the property qualification for voting as a couter balance to the power of the majority.  Mill said: “Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of the majority was at first, and is still vulgarly, held in dread, chiefly as operating through the acts of the public authorities. But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant its means of tyrannizing are not restricted to the acts which it may do by the hands of its political functionaries.”

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When a person gains power over other persons — the political power to force other persons to do his bidding when they do not believe it right to do so — it seems inevitable that a moral weakness develops in the person who exercises that power. It may take time for this weakness. It was Lord Acton, who said: "All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Liberals promote constitutionalism in many different forms. The social contract, separation of powers and the rule of law.

Jacques Rousseau , in1762 came up wth the Social Contract, ...

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