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The fact that americans disagree over whether eavesdropping on domestic phone conversations by federal antiterrorism investigators is necessary for security or a threat to democratic values demonstrates which "pillar" of democracy?

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social, economic, and political pluralism

Pluralism is the notion that in liberal democracies power should be distributed among a variety of economic and ideological pressure groups and should not be held by a single elite or group of elites as this could result in tyranny


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