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Commons. What emerged as the distinctive feature of modern constitutionalism was not the insistence on the idea that the king is subject to the law (although this concept is an essential attribute of all constitutionalism). This notion was already well established in the Middle Ages. What was distinctive was the establishment of effective means of political control whereby the rule of law might be enforced. Modern constitutionalism was born with the political requirement that representative government depended upon the consent of citizen subjects... However, as can be seen through provisions in the 1689 Bill of Rights, the
English Revolution was fought not just to protect the rights of property (in the narrow sense) but to establish those liberties which liberals believed essential to human dignity and moral worth. The "rights of man" enumerated in the English Bill of Rights gradually were proclaimed beyond the boundaries of England, notably in the American Declaration of Independence of 1776 and in the French Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789.
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unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the Law and the
Constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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1720:. The Roman model of governance would inspire many political thinkers over the centuries, and today's modern representative democracies imitate more the Roman than the Greek model, because it was a state in which supreme power was held by the people and their elected representatives, and which had an elected or nominated leader. Representative democracy is a form of democracy in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policy initiatives; as opposed to direct democracy, a form of democracy in which people vote on policy initiatives directly. A
1694:, believe that part of the duty of a representative is not simply to follow the wishes of the electorate but also to use their own judgment in the exercise of their powers, even if their views are not reflective of those of a majority of voters. A representative who chooses to execute the wishes of his or her constituents acts as a delegate. If the representative chooses to use his or her best judgment and knowledge in making decisions, even when the constituents do not fully agree with the decision, then the representative acts as a trustee.
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Representative, to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business,
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Rettung Europas. Grundlinien einer ethischen Geschichtsauffassung. Verlag Bücherfreunde, Basel 1947. In 1983 republished under: "Gemeindefreiheit – kommunale Selbstverwaltung" (Adolf Gasser/Franz-Ludwig Knemeyer), in de reeks "Studien zur Soziologie", Nymphenburger, München,
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Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy'" (Hearst's International Library Co., 1915; Free Press, 1949; Dover Publications, 1959); republished with an introduction by Seymour Martin Lipset (Crowell-Collier, 1962; Transaction Publishers, 1999,
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A drawback to this type of government is that elected officials are not required to fulfill promises made before their election and are able to promote their own self-interests once elected, providing an incohesive system of governance. Legislators are also under scrutiny as the system of
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has been proposed as an improved system compared to the system of representative democracy, where representatives are elected. Stochocracy aims to at least reduce this degradation by having all representatives appointed by
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is a mix between a majority-ruled system and a consensus-based system. It allows for representative democracies or direct democracies to coexist with its system of governance, providing an initial advantage.
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which was published in 1943 and a second edition in 1947. Adolf Gasser stated the following requirements for a representative democracy in order to remain stable, unaffected by the iron law of oligarchy:
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Bernauer, Julian; Giger, Nathalie; Rosset, Jan (January 2015). "Mind the gap: Do proportional electoral systems foster a more equal representation of women and men, poor and rich?".
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criticize representative democracy due to its inherent structure. As the fundamental basis of representative democracy is non inclusive system, in which representatives turn into an
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in 1787, with a national legislature based partly on direct elections of representatives every two years, and thus responsible to the electorate for continuance in office.
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Movement in Žižek's hometown: Direct democracy and a politics of becoming: The Occupy Movement in Žižek's hometown".
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require or encourage voters to vote for political parties or for candidates associated with political parties (as opposed to voting for individual representatives). Some
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Society has to be built up from bottom to top. As a consequence, society is built up by people, who are free and have the power to defend themselves with weapons.
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Soziologie des Parteiwesens in der modernen Demokratie. Untersuchungen ĂĽber die oligarchischen Tendenzen des Gruppenlebens (1911, 1925; 1970). Translated as
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investigate how and how well elected representatives, such as legislators, represent the interests or preferences of one or another constituency. The
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instead of by voting. Therefore, this system is also called lottocracy. The system was proposed by the writer Roger de Sizif in 1998 in his book
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Comparative Perspective on Class and Representation: Evidence from Latin America".
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Political Representation of the Poor in a Comparative Perspective".
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and compared to the unstable representative democracies in his book
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function as some type of representative democracy: for example, the
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argues that most representative systems deteriorate towards an
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Local communities join into a higher unit, e.g. a canton.
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of unlimited authority and the second, in 1265, included
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Gilens, Martin; Page, Benjamin I. (September 2014).
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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2826:Peters, Yvette; Ensink, Sander J. (4 May 2015).
1840:was re-established in France in the wake of the
2309:. In Clarke, Paul A.B.; Foweraker, Joe (eds.).
2254:. London: Henry G. Bohn. 1854. pp. 446–8.
2426:. Vol. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
1762:implemented some of the ideas and systems of
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1939:Gemeindefreiheit als Rettung Europas
1881:Research on representation democracy
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2507:"Expansion of Rights and Liberties"
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2275:. Penguin Classics. p. 34.
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2845:10.1080/01402382.2014.973260
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2617:Roser, Max (15 March 2013).
950:(socio-political ideologies)
613:Middle East and North Africa
480:Peaceful transition of power
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2075:Proportional representation
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688:List of forms of government
510:Proportional representation
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2529:"The French Revolution II"
2227:"CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY"
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2725:10.1017/S1537592714001595
2650:10.1017/S000305540505152X
1959:There is no hierarchical
1887:Representation (politics)
1842:French Revolution of 1848
1504:Western-style democracies
1139:(geo-cultural ideologies)
3192:Representative democracy
3181:Representative democracy
3176:templates for discussion
2886:10.1177/0032329219897984
2712:Perspectives on Politics
2685:10.1177/0192512113498830
2313:. Taylor & Francis.
2134:European Economic Review
2070:Political representation
1819:House of Representatives
1750:, in 1258, stripped the
1622:constitutional democracy
1488:Representative democracy
565:Wars between democracies
545:Territorial peace theory
390:Democratic confederalism
3074:Heckert, Jamie (2010).
2583:. Duke UP. p. 58.
2334:Jobson, Adrian (2012).
2031:by economic oligarchs.
1929:. This is known as the
1854:where large numbers of
1838:Universal male suffrage
1811:Three-Fifths Compromise
1626:constitutional monarchy
1518:constitutional monarchy
1402:Administrative division
1346:International relations
550:Tyranny of the majority
485:Political demonstration
395:Democratic peace theory
370:Deliberative referendum
3142:Deliberative Democracy
3139:Bohman, James (1997).
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1684:British House of Lords
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1610:more than two chambers
375:Democratic backsliding
365:Criticism of democracy
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2971:Policy & Politics
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1795:Seventeenth Amendment
1766:, culminating in the
1760:Parliament of England
1672:bicameral legislature
1634:independent judiciary
1412:Democratic transition
1275:Self-governing colony
872:Military dictatorship
430:Electoral competition
410:Democratic transition
385:Democratic centralism
380:Democratic capitalism
3049:American Ethnologist
2295:Watson, 2005, p. 271
1893:political philosophy
1858:evinced interest in
1826:Revolutionary France
1803:Fourteenth Amendment
1638:constitutional court
1590:presidential systems
405:Democratic socialism
2384:. 20 January 2015.
2305:Budge, Ian (2001).
2176:on 13 December 2007
1917:, written in 1911,
1834:National Convention
1783:American Revolution
1772:Bill of Rights 1689
1770:and passage of the
1768:Glorious Revolution
1563:political theorists
1492:electoral democracy
1451:Politics portal
1336:Supranational union
1245:Dependent territory
1158:National government
631:Politics portal
425:Democracy promotion
400:Democratic republic
3289:Types of democracy
2778:10.1111/ajps.12112
2474:on 24 October 2014
2307:"Direct democracy"
2017:Athenian democracy
1998:Proposed solutions
1901:empirical research
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1496:indirect democracy
570:Waves of democracy
530:Right to candidacy
500:Popular referendum
490:Political equality
360:Citizens' assembly
2942:978-2-8004-1443-0
2750:978-0-226-08728-3
2623:Our World in Data
2535:on 27 August 2008
2347:978-1-84725-226-5
2320:978-0-415-19396-2
1914:Political Parties
1764:liberal democracy
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1923:oligarchy
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1807:Civil War
1748:The first
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1579:polyarchy
1202:Unitarism
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1084:Religious
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1737:monarchs
1725:medieval
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