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Best CAT Coaching In Delhi - CAT | Verbal | Verbal Reasoning | Paragraph Summary
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Type : MCQ

Intructions :

Directions: The following paragraph is followed by four alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the paragraph.

Question Statement :

Nineteenth-century liberals recognized that democracy comes in various forms, and dreaded the version advocated by Rousseau, in which an inspired lawgiver interprets and implements the will of the people. Nowadays such fears are dismissed as elitist. But the old-fashioned liberals grasped a vital truth: popular government has no necessary connection with the freedom of individuals or minorities. Of course, liberals today will say this can be remedied by installing the rule of constitutional rights. Such systems are fragile, however, and count for nothing when large sections of society are indifferent or actively hostile to liberal values. Where this is the case, democracy means not much more than the tyranny of the majority.