This is not a democracy, Antonio García-Trevijano denounces in the first pages of this book. To confront the great lie that Europe does have democratic regimes, a lie rooted in peoples confounding of the liberties they enjoy with the political freedom that they lack, the author builds a realistic theory of democracy to end the false idea that corruption, state crime, and public immorality are democracys (undesirable) products and not the natural and inevitable fruits of oligarchic regimes. Thanks to a superb review of the events that mark the history of democracy, the author reveals the obstacles that, from the 17th century English revolution, the United States War of Independence, and the French Revolution, opposed political freedom, deviating old Europes democratic possibilities toward the current parties state. There exist important theories of the state and of constitution, but none that can be called a theory of democracy. Antonio García-Trevijanos original theory, a modern synthesis of Rousseaus pure democracy and Montesquieus political freedom, responds to European need for a theory of democracy as