Sentences with phrase «representative democracy in action»
Grassroots lobbying — encouraging citizens to contact public officials in order to affect public policy — is quintessential representative democracy in action.
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It is one of the blessings of democracy that this is so, for in part these procedures depend on individual attitudes, and in other matters on political action in which representatives in government must eventually be responsive to the people's demands.
The actions of Gov. Dannel Malloy, his interim commissioner of education and many superintendents of schools in this matter are inexcusable and do violence to the basic tenet of representative democracy that governments exist to protect the rights of the people.