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  • But we need to stop pretending that decentralised development is necessarily the ultra-democratic panacea it's often made out to be.

    Time to acknowledge the dirty truth behind community-led sanitation 2011

  • But we need to stop pretending that decentralised development is necessarily the ultra-democratic panacea it's often made out to be.

    Time to acknowledge the dirty truth behind community-led sanitation 2011

  • Instead of creating Winthrop's vision of an ordered society, the Pilgrims actually invented the raucous, ultra-democratic New England town meeting — a system of governance, the Dartmouth historian Colin Galloway observes, that "displays more attributes of Algonkian government by consensus than of Puritan government by the divinely ordained."

    1491: excerpts part 3 2009

  • "We are being ultra-democratic" said the First Minister on the Politics Show today when asked about the rift between AMs and MPs concerning the red-green deal.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • In the meantime, Hughes has provided a vivid specimen of the Philadelphia view of an ultra-democratic world in which there would be only Indians and no chiefs.

    Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

  • He will not rest until every single country in the world - including countries where are no countries such as Antarctica, Atlantis, and the Moon - into Ultrocracies, democracies so ultra-democratic that the will of the people manifests itself as an immense avatar-being of pure energy that roams around the countryside turning garbage into food and corpses into high-paying private sector jobs!

    Fuck Democracy ninebelow 2004

  • - Rolling back some of the "ultra-democratic" traditions in local politics and preventing leadership disputes from getting out of control.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • This work, which reproduced more at length and in a more obnoxious form the fundamental ideas of his 'Defence of the American Constitution,' made Adams a great bugbear to the ultra-democratic supporters of the principles and policy of the French revolutionists; and at the second presidential election in 1792, they set up as a candidate against him George Clinton, of New York, but Mr. Adams was re-elected by a decided vote.

    Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis

  • How far such ultra-democratic tendencies may be right respecting mankind in general is, I think, extremely problematical.

    Calvert of Strathore Carter Goodloe

  • After being welcome, he thought it expedient to unfold his family roll, so to say, but the ultra-democratic ruler gently interpolated as if he saw an apology in the recital, and soothingly observed:

    The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

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