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Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on equality of citizens of a liberal democratic state.

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on equality of citizens of a liberal democratic state. This essay explores how liberal democratic states ensure equality of all its citizens and to what extent the citizens are protected from social, political and economic mechanisms that create disparity amongst different individuals and groups within a sovereign state.

An important aspect that determines the extent of equality in a liberal democratic state is how the citizens take advantage of available political resources. Equality in the political platform can only be exercised when every citizen has the necessary awareness through education about the state’s political system. For the necessary political awareness level to be achieved, all citizens must have access to the available means of communication that will allow them to receive and share vital information about how they should exercise their democratic rights (Corbin, 1920. Post, 2006. Heywood, 2004). Citizens who lack basic information do not have the capacity to make informed choices especially in the electoral processes and are therefore influenced to make uninformed decisions through coercion.

Post (2006) notes that the First Amendment offers protection for all Americans to engage in a communicative process that results in a public agreement reached without coercion and through means that guarantee the perception that, everyone is free and equal. This can only be achieved through a communicative process that generates a public opinion that balances between the individual and collective self-determination (Heywood, 2004). Having in place effective mechanisms that support communication within public discourse does not necessarily affect decision-making processes. In most cases, these mechanisms only empower citizens to take part in public opinion to such extent that they presume public opinion respond to their opinions.

However, equality in the participation in public discourse does not have the same effect as equality in voting which is based on equality of citizen’s influence on ultimate decisions.&nbsp.&nbsp.

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