Democracy will inevitably go further along the road towards its ideal, which is direct government.
Its ideal is direct governmentas it existed at Athens, its ideal is "democracy," in the terminology of Rousseau, who applied the word to direct government and to direct government only.
We have hardly yet reached, and are never likely to reach, that ideal of direct government.
The intimate connection of representation with the progress which has followed its introduction is so little recognized that the most advanced democracies are now willing to listen to any proposal to return to direct government.
We now come to the claim of those ultra-democrats who preach the poisonous doctrines of direct government and of unrestrained majority rule, that responsible leadership is incompatible with popular government.
The necessity for this is to save the people from their anti-social tendencies, which we have already stated as the great objection to all forms of direct government.
The distinction, briefly and concisely stated, is this: One is direct government, the other representative government.
They were fully alive to the fact that the first step had always been from representative government to direct government; from direct government to chaos, from chaos to the man on horseback--the dictator; thence to monarchy.
These two practices constitute a form of "direct government.
As a general proposition, direct government in all its forms was bitterly opposed by men of a conservative cast of mind.
This feature of direct government, tried out first in the city of Los Angeles, was extended to state-wide uses in Oregon in 1908.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "direct government" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
