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"The manner of communication in a democracy should be as per the dignity of democracy," he said.— Zee News : India National
"Citizens in a democracy are all supposed to have an equal share in that democracy, so we ought to act like it."— Seeing the Forest
So appealing to these ideas of what a democracy is and what elected representation means are just ignoring the question: in the way Malaysians have experienced "democracy" in Malaysia, are crossovers ethical?— reduced and recycled
The validity of colonial expansion even for a democracy is a manifest deduction from the foregoing political principles, always assuming that the people whose independence is thereby diminished are incapable of efficient national organization.— The Promise of American Life
The movement in American democracy which is most conspicuous is the effort to get that will accurately and immediately expressed--that is, a movement toward what might be called more democracy--toward a direct control of "politics" by the people--and that movement has had its rise and strength in the Mississippi Valley and beyond But who are the people who are to control?— The French in the Heart of America

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