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?

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

popular sovereignty   influenced the declaration of independence because the colonists wanted to have freedom to do they wanted so they put into writing

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