The nearest form of government to a pure democracy is a representative democracy, or one in which groups of people choose one or more persons to represent them.
They were men who were selected by their neighbors to represent them, just as men are elected to-day to represent us in the legislature of our State or in Congress.
Pronominal adjectives are a kind of definitives, which may either accompany their nouns, or represent them understood.
Lennie, M'Culloch, and others, represent them as being "masculine or feminine.
English, though possessing sounds comparable to the Greek th, f, ch, has never made any attempt to represent them in writing.
The office is traceable as early as the beginning of the 5th century in the Roman empire, the churches being allowed to choose defensores from the body of advocates to represent them in the courts.
His object was not to make any profit from the transaction, and he formed what is termed a Landholders' Court, formed of the men themselves, every ten choosing one to represent them.
An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point.
One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.
There are a great many women who have no men in their own households to represent them, either for their wrongs or their rights.
It is impossible to represent them here in the necessary complete detail to show this.
It was customary for colonies to select some one to represent them in important matters of legislation.
The representatives come from every state in the Union, and even far-off Hawaii, Alaska, and the Philippines are allowed to send delegates to this assembly to represent them in making laws.
People from almost every country in the world may be seen on the streets, for almost all civilized nations have ministers or ambassadors at Washington to represent them in official dealings with the United States.
It was Mr. Ball who introduced his townspeople to the great man who was to represent them.
He was chosen by the people of Pennsylvania to represent them in the august body of their legislature, and now he has got new honor in a new field [renewed cheering].
If the people see fit, by electing her to an office the duties of which pertain almost wholly to the practice of the law, to employ her to represent themin their litigation, why should not the courts recognize the employment?
The so-called electorates were never known to give definite mandates to those who professed to represent them or to pronounce upon any course of action which their representatives might pursue.
The defendants who preceded Calhoun to trial had an army of attorneys to represent them.
To Richard Bland nothing could be more vital to the rights of British subjects than to be represented "directly" by those whom they knew and whom they chose to represent them.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "represent them" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
