| Politicians in modern liberal democracies confidently expect to die in bed. |
| All Western democracies are now acutely aware of the apocalyptic consequences of a well-orchestrated attack on high-profile facilities. |
| In many respects it is conducted in more earnest, for higher stakes, and against greater odds than political life in liberal democracies. |
| The trend among democracies over the last few decades has been toward judicial review of legislative as well as executive action. |
| The colonies were not democracies and the governors were not responsible to an electorate. |
| It is too easy to condemn the past by using as a yardstick the standards of modern western democracies. |
