How should we live as citizens? To evaluate this question, we must refer to the ideas offered by John Dewey's "Creative Dewey" and Jane Mansbridge's "Using Power/Fighting Power." . These publications both want to achieve the same goal of equality, as it is of utmost importance to preserve the democratic way of life. Both Dewey and Mansbridge talk about how we should live as citizens so that we can achieve equality. Dewey believes that as citizens we should consider the idea of ​​friendly cooperation or being able to deliberate on issues to achieve our goals. While Mansbridge expands on this idea and argues that in times where deliberation or amicable cooperation fails, we must pursue the idea of ​​coercion to achieve the equality we wish to see as citizens. As citizens, we should be committed to social, economic and political equality. We must move our democracy in this direction towards equality, because if we fail to achieve this; we are not doing our part as citizens in society. Before developing my views on how we should live as citizens to achieve equality, we must first understand the main views of Dewey and Mansbridge. In Creative Dewey, John Dewey states that as a society, "we have been accustomed to thinking of democracy as a kind of political mechanism which will work as long as citizens are reasonably faithful to their duties" (Dewey 1939, 2). He challenges this idea by talking about democracy as a concept by which individuals within our society should live. As he says: “Democracy is a personal way of life; that it means the possession and continued use of certain attitudes, forming personal character and determining desire and purpose in all that...... middle of paper ...... establishing the level of education that we, as citizens, receive if we are not sufficiently informed on many issues, how can we express our ideas coherently? As a society, we must fight for equality because we all know what it feels like to be overlooked. Yet we fail to adopt or put in place the policies that will help us circumvent the problems we face. The reason is that amicable cooperation does not take place when it comes to equality issues. Because of this, these disadvantaged minority groups are not heard because they are constantly suppressed by the very conditions to which they are inherently subjected. Works Cited Dewey, John. “Creative democracy: the task before us. » Speech read by Horace M. Kallen at the dinner in honor of John Dewey. October 20, 1939 Mansbridge, Jane. 1994. “Using Power/Combat Power.” Constellations 1: 53–73