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This course looks at ordered liberty as the guiding purpose of American public service. For the purposes of this course, let’s define ordered liberty in public administration as the balance of public good and individual rights.

Though democracy is vital to our culture and modes of governance, it remains problematic in a reality dedicated to protecting individual rights. The founders shared a common concern for both individual rights and the common good.

Over time we have modified our national and state constitutions to increase direct democratic rule and accountability, and increased our expectations that political leaders should avidly embrace majority will rather than temper and resist its influence.

Ordered liberty is an end fraught with conundrums and tensions, it is helpful to consider the nature of the relationship between order and liberty. Americans are passionately committed to individual liberty, yet divided over how best to achieve it. Should we minimize the role of government in order to maximize freedom, or should we increase the power of our governments in order to protect and enhance our liberties within various spheres of life?

The principle of equality has remained a core national value to which administrators hold a responsibility. There are three dimensions of equality that have implications for career public administrators.

Career administrators play a vital role in shaping both the process and substance of public service and implementing the rule of law.