What might have appeared as dysfunction at the state Capitol was literally representative democracy in action.

The framers of the Constitution added ten amendments, called the Bill of Rights, to protect individuals’ rights from being infringed by the government. A democratic government is one in which the ...

The health of democracy has declined significantly in many nations over the past several years, but the concept of representative democracy continues to be popular among citizens across the globe.

This, of course, is at the heart of representative democracy: that we elect people to make decisions on our behalf. If most Americans disagree that this is working well, that’s a threat to ...

A mass meeting of the "Regular Representative Democracy," as it was named in ... to destruction any cause represented by them. As an illustration, he called upon his audience to remember how ...

In fact, the liberal representative part of our democracy has undermined our struggles to be truly multiracial. Our current system’s focus on individuals assumes a color-blind logic that fails ...

Representative government faces its most ... They also disagree on democracy itself, especially one of its essential pillars — willingness to accept defeat at the polls. All year, our staff ...

Direct democracy was common in the pre-modern world, but that isn't the subject here: The authors identify two principal roots of what they deem modern representative democracy. First is the ...

They are correct in that the U.S.A. is not a pure democracy, but incorrect because the U.S.A. is a representative democracy. Our Founding Fathers organized our form of government (representative ...