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Example sentences for "representative government"

  • I did see an interesting experiment, but not in representative government.

  • Friends of Russia here think of the dictatorship of the proletariat as merely a new form of representative government, in which only working men and women have votes, and the constituencies are partly occupational, not geographical.

  • It would be impossible, on the rational system of representative government, to make out a bill of expenses to such an enormous amount as this deception admits.

  • In the Massachusetts convention, which met at Boston, the majority was not above nineteen or twenty, in about three hundred members; but such is the nature of representative government, that it quietly decides all matters by majority.

  • It was not the act of congress, because it is repugnant to the principles of representative government that a body should give power to itself.

  • The character therefore of the revolutions of the present day distinguishes itself most definitively by grounding itself on the system of representative government, in opposition to the hereditary.

  • It would then signify a strict adherence to Moral Justice, to the equality of civil and political rights, to the system of representative government, and an opposition to all hereditary claims to govern.

  • In this manner were our notions of representative government transplanted.

  • For the citizens, and subject to their presentative sanction, the practice of representative government exists.

  • It was the first germ of representative government in India.

  • The author has not indulged in the hope of raising Asiatics to the level of Europeans by the premature introduction of representative government.

  • The legislative assembly of 1854 has already been described as the earliest germ of representative government in India.

  • We may ask if representative government is ever to be inseparable from the defects which form the most striking feature in its application and administration, especially on this continent.

  • The keystone of representative government is rewards according to merit, and the buttresses that support the arch are freedom of action on the one side, and justice according to law on the other.

  • There is quite a widespread demand that everything shall be taken out of politics, and a presumption is indulged, that, if this were done, all of the evils which now inhere in representative government would be cured.

  • Probably our change of conception of representative government is largely responsible for the evolution in the popular use of the word democracy.

  • It must be that the United States will revert to representative government in its original simplicity.

  • Representative government itself is supposed, by most scholars, to be the one invention that is peculiar to the Anglo-Saxon people.

  • It is that notion of personal liberty which was the cause of representative government, not representative government that was the cause of personal liberty.

  • Sidenote: A long break in the history of representative government.

  • That which America exemplifies in her Constitution and system of representative government is the most modern, and of any yet devised gives promise of being the most substantial and enduring.

  • The latest, most modern, and nearest perfect system that statesmanship has devised is representative government.


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