Democracia estrita: o respeito à liberdade individual no Estado Democrático de Direito

Abstract

ABSTRACT The theme of democracy has been largely distorted and misunderstood today. Strict Democracy is not a new proposal for democracy, but an attempt to resume its original essence. Democracy is much more comprehensive than simply the exercise of suffrage, its essence lies in the possibility of coexistence of different individual interests and in the minimum intervention of the State. The stability of the Rule of Law is an instrument created to serve democracy, whose main characteristic is political pluralism. However, when distorted it can lead to the implementation of a “dictatorship of the majority”. The methodology used is based on a bibliographic review and the application of hypothetical-deductive and comparative methods. This scientific article concludes that democracy is not the simple inscription of the term in the constitutional text, but the faithful obedience to the meaning of this term, exposed throughout the research. Keywords: Democracy, Individual Freedoms, Political Pluralism, State, Law.