Thus it is, in the vast labyrinth of human laws, that extreme liberty sometimes corrects the abuses of license, and that extreme democracy obviates the dangers of democratic government.
Although a democratic government is founded upon a very simple and natural principle, it always presupposes the existence of a high degree of culture and enlightenment in society.
And as this could not be the case, unless the Sovereign and the people were one and the same person, it follows that I should have wished to be born under a democratic government, wisely tempered.
It is not, therefore, a long step from the view of Rousseau to the modern theory of democratic government, in which the people has little power beyond that of removing its rulers if they displease it.
It is, indeed, the peculiar advantage of democratic governmentthat it can be established in actuality by a simple act of the general will.
Why may an autocratic government perform more efficient service than a democratic government?
Democratic government is no longer an exercise of arbitrary authority from one above, but is an organization for public service of the people themselves--or will be when it is really attained.
Or the return might take the less positive form of opportunity, as it does when an aristocratic society has a democratic government.
The former may be called social democracy and the latter democratic government.
Democratic government, on the contrary, is merely a means to an end, an expedient for the better and smoother government of certain states at certain junctures.
Such a community might be said to have also a democratic government, for everything in it is naturally democratic.
Even many of those opposed in principle to democratic government began to recognize that nothing else could unite the people.
It honestly desired to restore order in Germany and to institute a democratic government.
At that famous period in American history, when the War of Independence broke out, and the Declaration of Independence was framed, nearly all the people were resolute champions of democratic government.
And every fresh campaign for the restriction of kingly power brings us nearer the day of democratic government.
The American Constitution was the work of men who believed in democratic government as Locke had defined it, and America has been the biggest experiment in democracy the world has seen.
The knowledge that these forms of democratic governmenthave by no means at all times and in all places proved successful does not check the movement.
In the Middle Ages the religious guilds and the trade guilds, managed by their own members, gave men and women a training in democratic government.
It might be true that the masses of the people in those Nations would change the policies of their Governments if they could be allowed full freedom and full access to the processes of democratic government as we understand them.
They must be an especial concern of democratic Government.
Fortunate it is, therefore, that in this Western Hemisphere we have, under a common ideal of democratic government, a rich diversity of resources and of peoples functioning together in mutual respect and peace.
In Russia a democratic government conforming to the experience and judgment of civilized and free peoples was being set up when the Bolsheviki by violence destroyed the attempt.
At this late day it is not necessary to argue the merits of democratic government.
We do not say that the Soviet idea contains nothing of good; we do not deny that, under a democratic government, Soviets might have aided, and may yet aid, to democratize Russian industrial life.
The play of democratic government will go on for a time, but the idea of a common will that should actually undertake the organization of social life is held the most childish of illusions.
To understand the real value of democratic government, we shall have to probe far deeper into the relations of the individual and society.
In the matter of form the inherent difficulty of democratic government, whether direct or representative, is that it is government by majority, not government by universal consent.
If it no longer rushes in an electoral torrent as in 1906 it flows in a steady stream towards social amelioration and democratic government.
I have observed that short-sighted persons in general are not apt to be popular in a Democratic government.
Monsieur de Tocqueville is profoundly wrong, and does great injury to democratic government, as his theory countenances the monarchial idea of the incapacity of the people for self-government.
All that, however, is consistent enough with the Napoleonic conception of the true method of democratic government.
What is the solution of the riddle as it respects the strength of democratic government?
As an anti-democratic element, we find it plotting the overthrow of democratic government.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "democratic government" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
