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REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY. A form of government where the powers of the sovereignty are delegated to a body of men, elected from time to time, who exercise them for the benefit of the whole nation. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 31. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| McDonald (an assistant Professor as George Mason University and a visiting fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings institution) and John Samples (Director of the Center for Representative Government at the Cato Institute), The Marketplace Democracy: Electoral Competition and American Politics is an anthology of essays by political experts concerning the stagnancy of modern American democracy. A basic, primary responsibility of our representative government is to ensure the safety and security of its citizens, and like it or not, that absolutely includes insulating those citizens from the unlawful acts of non-citizens. It's encouraging that Pfaff does "not deny the obvious development of society--institutional and legal progress, the benefits of representative government, the internationalized norms of justice. |
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