SUBJECTS OF TOLERANCEprinciples, law or policy. This would be a liberalism potentially more modest, more re-
strained in its imperial and colonial impulses, but also one more capable of the multicul-
tural justice to which it aspires. Above all, it would be a liberalism less invested in the
absolute and dangerous opposition between us and them, thereby losing one of its crucial
justifications for empire under the flag of liberal democracy.^56
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