TERRORISM AND DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLE

In combating terrorism, democracies cannot overstep the limits established by the principle of the rule of law and by the tautological principle of democracy, which converges with the first one. This is not counteracted by the reproach of being a self-assertive democracy, regarded as a negative concept by the majority of the Spanish literature. Democracy is not an ethically neutral regime. Democracy must be as strong as required to protect its own values.