Is patriotism a sufficient justification for liberal democracies to coerce conscription?

• Main Author: Tan, Jared Yue Rong
• Other Authors: Andrew T. Forcehimes
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137440
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Liberal democracies are legitimate when the country is able to justify their coercive actions to reasonable free and equal citizens. Liberal democracies are stable when free and equal citizens find overlapping consensus via public reason to form a unified political conception – that of the liberal d...