The sheer tenacity of belief in it, rather than fact, has sustained a form of representative government for over two centuries. |
What we're effectively seeing is the displacement of democratic representative government with something approaching plutocracy. |
The ideas of liberty, self-determination, representative government and unalienable fights, spread and took root. |
When representative government was introduced to Bermuda in 1620, it became a self-governing colony. |
The point is that this Anglo-American tradition of limited, representative government developed over hundreds of years. |
Unfavorable governments in favor of big business therefore remain in power at the cost of a representative government. |