What is the defining right of a representative democracy? How was the Mayflower Compact an example of direct democracy? Is despotism the same as dictatorship? Who is in charge of a representative democracy? How is power limited in an oligarchy?
The net effect is that populations are saying, “We are not seeing the dividends of democracy”, as all you see are elections but ultimately there are the same kind of practices and a huge waste of resources on activities that have nothing to do with improving the lives of the people. ...
SIMON SONOSKY, CHAMBERS, SACHSE, ENDRESON & PERRY, LLP 1425 K Street, NW Suite 600 Washington, DC 20005 (202) 682-0240 FRED WERTHEIMER DEMOCRACY 21 1825 Eye Street, NW Suite 400 Washington, DC 20006 (202) 355-9600 QUESTION PRESENTED Whether appellants' purported...
The COVID-19 pandemic places a considerable burden on populations worldwide and is having a severe economic impact1. In response to the pandemic, different forms of lockdown, quarantine, and social/physical distancing are currently being implemented, restricting interactions within communities and count...
democracy: and, if we dare carry these generalizations a step higher, and name the last tendency of both, we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization,- pure science; and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality, or use of means, or executive deity. Ea...