by: John Locke, Thomas Paine, James Madison, Alexis Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, John Rawls, Aristotle, Niccolo Machiavelli, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Winthrop, Horace Mann, Robert Bellah, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Arthur Bentley, Robert Dahl, Joseph Schumpeter, Anthony Downs, John Dewey, Benjamin Barber, Max Weber, Noberto Bobbio, Michel Foucault, William Connolly, Chantal Mouffe, Jurgen Habermas, "Liberal/Democratic Divide, " Sheldon Wolin, Anne Phillips, Cornel West, Iris Marion Young, Mahatma Gandhi, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Aung San Suu Kyi, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Jean-Bertrand Aristide