Why is citizen engagement in the political process an important condition of popular sovereignty quizlet?

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1st EditionGlen Krutz

412 solutions

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269 solutions

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Political Equality:
Equal Protection
Civil rights
Linked to economic equality?

The second benchmark of representative democracy, and a necessary condition for popular sovereignty to exist, is political equality. This is the idea that each person, being of equal intrinsic value as other human beings, carries the same weight in voting and other political decision making.

Political equality also involves what the FOURTEENTH Amendment to the Constitution calls "EQUAL protection," meaning that everyone in a democracy is TREATED the same by government. Taken together, political equality and equal treatment are sometimes called CIVIL RIGHTS. Is political equality possible when great economic inequality exists, as is the case in the United States?