2. Democracy and Its Discontents.

The article focuses on assertion of democratic rights by the separatists is met by the assertion of democratic rights by other Spaniards and suggests that democracy is both potent and promiscuous. Topics discussed include quality of democracy in great Britain, reinvention of democracy took the idea of the people ruling themselves with people ruling through their representatives and illiberal democracy of conservative nationalism that restricts freedoms and interferes with the courts.