La liberté et l’absence de la liberté du citoyen

The liberty or the absence of the liberated. This notion was thought as an alternative between two choices. Kierkegaard or “Give me liberty, or give me death!” By Patrick Henry (the first governor of Virginia during the American War of Independence) Serve as typical examples of this way of thinking. For the people, subjected to the oppression of the despotic feudal system of the Middle Ages, the establishment of a modern society was the glorification of a form of liberty. By the revolution that led to the independence and creation of the United States of America and also by the French Revolution, the people obtained freedom symbolized by the slogan of the French Revolution: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. The United States, a country that was built on these values, is now a dominant economic and military superpower. From this point of view, having completed the values of the French Revolution in its societies, the West (Europe and the United States) seems to have brought together ideal democracies. This, however, only holds true when we compare with countries suffering from poverty, oppression, tyranny or fascism. Because a nation is the gathering of men and no man is perfect, it is difficult to find an ideal country. Thus J.J. Rousseau, the ideologist and sympathizer of the French revolution, expresses it in his work “Du Contrat Social”: ... To take the term in the strict sense, there has never existed a true democracy, and it will never exist.