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Social democracy, social democracy means 'a way of life which recognise liberty, equality and fraternity as principles of life.' They are not separate items in a trinity but they form union of trinity. To diverse one from the other is to defeat the very purpose of democracy. Without equality, liberty would produce the supremacy of the few over the many. Equality without liberty would kill individual initiative. Without fraternity, liberty and equality could not become a natural course of things, Valsama Paul v. Cochin University, AIR 1996 SC 1011 (1014): (1996) 3 SCC 545.