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| | Representative democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | It is a theory of civics in which voters choose (in free, secret, multi-party elections) representatives to act in their interests, but not as their proxies—i.e., not necessarily according to their voters' wishes, but with enough authority to exercise initiative in the face of changing circumstances. | | | A representative democracy may provide for recall of elected representatives that voters become dissatisfied with. | | | The Iroquois model of representative government influenced English philosophers, as well as Benjamin Franklin, and inspired the Americans and French to create representative democracies. |
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| | Representative Democracy, Direct Democracy Political Theory |
| | Systems of representative democracy are based on the principle of political representa- tion--exercise of legislative authority by a representative assembly elected by the voters. | | | All fifty state legislatures are assemblies of representatives elected by the voters. | | | Madison was instrumental in the convening of the Federal Constitutional Convention of 1787 and played an important role in the drafting of the United States Constitution and in securing its ratification and adoption. |
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| | THE SHAPE OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY |
| | The tension between federalism and democracy, like the tension between federalism and responsible government, was well understood by the framers of the Constitution, and by politicians generally at the time of federation. | | | The method by which the Senate is constituted, and the provisions of the Constitution relating to amendment of the Constitution, have a bearing upon the slogan "one vote, one value". | | | In Canada, as in the United States of America and Australia, the Upper House in the national parliament represents regions, but in Canada, unlike the United States and Australia, the members of the Upper House are not elected. |
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| | What Is Democracy? - Defining Democracy |
| | Diane Ravitch, scholar, author, and a former assistant U.S. secretary of education, wrote in a paper for an educational seminar in Poland: "When a representative democracy operates in accordance with a constitution that limits the powers of the government and guarantees fundamental rights to all citizens, this form of government is a constitutional democracy. | | | For this reason, it is possible to identify the time-tested fundamentals of constitutional government, human rights, and equality before the law that any society must possess to be properly called democratic. | | | In a direct democracy, all citizens, without the intermediary of elected or appointed officials, can participate in making public decisions. |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/whatsdem/whatdm2.htm
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| | Representative Democracy |
| | This had led to an immense waste of resources, a situation attributed to the form of participation that was inadequate and to the lack of control of the governors by the governed, which had made it possible for serious corruption to occur. | | | In some countries that have had vigorous turnout in the past, electoral participation is decreasing, while in others, especially where there has been the prospect for invigorated democracy, voter participation has failed to meet the levels that had been anticipated. | | | At its July 28, 1999 meeting, that committee established the Working Group on Representative Democracy, which elected Ambassador Virginia Contreras, Permanent Representative of Venezuela to OAS, as chair by acclamation. |
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http://www.oas.org/Assembly2001/assembly/eng/documents/1664.htm
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| | Accurate Representation in Representative Democracy |
| | Government by the majority vote of elected representatives who act as proxies, representing the will of their constituents. | | | This is what voters have chosen so far. | | | Officials govern this way because it's what we, as voters, have chosen. |
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http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/essays/democracy.html
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| | Direct Democracy League |
| | In the early 1900s, many state supreme courts and the US Supreme Court (1912) found that any and all of the direct democracy governance components, when combined with representative government, create a republican form of government intrinsic to the Constitution. | | | Ancient Republican Rome's 400 years of sovereign citizen lawmaking combined with representative government -- from 449 to 43 BCE -- established for all time that the citizens of civil society are the sovereign in any nation. | | | Passage of a national constitutional amendment requiring that all future amendments to the Constitution be approved only by direct referendum of all the citizens in all the states, approval contingent on "double majorities". |
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http://www.ddleague-usa.net
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| | Free book: Beyond Plutocracy - Direct Democracy for America, Home/Table of Contents |
| | Now proportionally representative of and serving the entire electorate, the congress will write laws and rules for government, business, labor, mass media, environmental protection, etc. that wisely serve the entire nation. | | | Proportionally resembling the entire electorate, the representative branches of government create laws and rules that serve the entire electorate. | | | In the demos electoral system the electorate directly elects the president, senators, and representatives, each voter choosing one candidate for each office. |
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http://www.beyondplutocracy.com
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| | Search Results for 'Representative-democracy' |
| | Day was regarded by many observers as a weak and gaffe-prone leader, whose mistakes and off-the-cuff remarks sometimes undermined even the efforts of his own caucus, and through the spring of 2001, several members of the Alliance resigned their shadow cabinet seats. | | | See also: U.S. House election, 2004 See also: List of United States Representatives from Ohio... | | | See also: U.S. House election, 2004 There was a special election held in 1965 to fill the seat following the death of Clarence J. Brown won by his son Clarence J. "Bud" Brown Jr.See also: List of United States Representatives from Ohio... |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/R/Representative-democracy.htm
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| | FORWARD : News |
| | Congress reapportions the number of seats each state gets in the House of Representatives, and each state takes the opportunity to redraw the boundaries of its congressional districts. | | | Throughout the summer Republican lawmakers acting at DeLay's behest have conducted a political, scorched-earth campaign to help him pad his majority in the House of Representatives. | | | If so, you probably also know that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Republican of Texas, and his allies enlisted the FBI, the Federal Aviation Administration and even the new Department of Homeland Security to help hunt them down. |
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http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.08.22/news4.html
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| | representative democracy |
| | A state in which citizens delegate authority to elected representatives. |
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http://www.webref.org/sociology/r/representative_democracy.htm
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| | Trust: Representative Democracy in America Brochure |
| | This project is funded by The U.S. Department of Education by act of Congress. | | | Look almost anywhere in the United States today and you will find some type of representative body, from Congress and state legislatures to school boards and student councils. | | | Yet many people are less familiar and comfortable with how it all works in practice today in the halls of Congress and our state capitols. |
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http://www.representativedemocracy.org/repdem_brochure.htm
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| | 1 Emergent Democracy |
| | This foundation was considered so fundamental to the success of democracy, that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution enumerates three rights specifically to preserve the competition of ideas: the freedoms of speech, of the press, and of peaceable assembly. | | | Democratic nations generally adopt republican form of representative democracy, formed in reaction to governments where leadership was hereditary (monarchy). | | | Though Athenian democratic governance was direct, it was also limited. |
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http://joi.ito.com/static/emergentdemocracy.html
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| | The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Crisis of representative democracy |
| | Representation may well be the constitutive and therefore the decisive moment in the construction of the political will. | | | However, today we see oddly enough that the authority of the Minister is derived from the political will of the party leadership. | | | The fact that vital issues related to livelihoods, to the fulfilment of basic needs, and for justice were not taken up by political parties but by civil society organisations acted as a catalyst in the popular move away from party politics to civil society. |
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http://www.hindu.com/2004/06/19/stories/2004061901441000.htm
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| | Speeches |
| | In my view, elections present two important elements of democracy: firstly, the undeniable right to every registered voter to cast their vote and with that contribute to and determine the future of his or her country. | | | All 34 member states are equal in the OAS and the OAS leadership considers it important to demonstrate dedicated efforts in support of democracy, development and security —the three fundamental pillars of policy focus- in all its member states. | | | The case can be made that “elections do not equal democracy”. |
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| | Direct Democracy Canada, We Govern Canada Together |
| | It is time to make democracy and not the politicians run Ottawa. | | | We want to empower young and old, black and white, from left and right united by our common goals, where every voice counts equaly, every day. | | | Direct Democracy is a form of democracy in which ordinary people make direct decisions, participate in governing, rather than have those decisions made for them by power hungry party leaders. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Shirley Chisholm, first black woman elected to Congress, dies |
| | Chisholm represented New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn and served until retiring in 1983. | | | "Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. | | | In her book, "Unbought and Unbossed," she recounted the campaign that brought her to Congress and wrote of her concerns about that body: |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-01-02-chisholm-obit_x.htm
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| | Trust for Representative Democracy: Overview |
| | This booklet would be appropriate for seniors in high school. | | | More than 200 years ago, Benjamin Franklin was asked what type of government the framers had formed. | | | Each fall, Americaâs Legislators Back to School Week gives young people an opportunity to meet personally with their elected state lawmakers and hear the message that Your Ideas Count! |
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http://www.ncsl.org/public/trust.htm
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| | Representative Democracy - Not Democracy; Political Freedom And Democracy ; The Australian Achievement: |
| | The main strength of the system of representative democracy is that it makes provision, through the Constitution, law and political institutions, for limitations on the powers which are exercised by governmental authorities as well as by private associations and groups. | | | The legal underpinning of democracy is the Constitution, and this is analysed in section 17. | | | In between elections, it prima facie seems to have a great degree of freedom but this is restricted, not only by the looming inevitability of elections in the future but also by the pressures put on the government by institutions, of which trade unions and big business are by no means the only ones. |
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http://www.ourcivilisation.com/cooray/btof/chap4iv.htm
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| | Representative Government and Democracy |
| | Although the Roman empire expanded to a great territory, the Roman republicans were never concerned about the actuality of political participation by citizens living far away from Rome, where the assembly met regularly. | | | This justification can be fulfilled during the election process when the general public chooses their representatives in the government. | | | Even Locke, the father of liberalism who agrees to the legitimacy of representative government, had little to say about representation in his two treatises on government. |
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http://www.oycf.org/Perspectives/3_123199/representative_government.htm
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| | Equal Voice - Canada's Representative Democracy |
| | In 1999, France became the first country in the world to amend its Constitution in order to bring about more gender parity in politics and ensure that women and men are equally represented in elected assemblies. | | | One year later, it also passed a bill requiring parties to present equal numbers of female and male candidates in most elections. | | | Furthermore, Canada can conveniently point to the fact that the United States and France, two countries that played an important role in the emergence of representative democracy, fall well behind it with 14.0% and 10.9% (before the parity reforms) of women respectively. |
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| | Ratifiers for Democracy |
| | While leaving most of the legislation and all of the day to day running in the hands of the representatives, | | | Because their future depends on winning elections, and because elections are won by attracting marginal voters, | | | This would be taking away some of the power from our elected representatives, but it goes to where it |
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http://www.ratifiersfordemocracy.org
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| | NCSLnet: Trust for Representative Democracy |
| | Presentation, What We Owe Our Children, by the Honorable Lee Hamilton, director, Center on Congress at Indiana University. | | | Project Citizen 2005 Annual Showcase Awards: NCSL and the Center for Civic Education announce the awards of the 9th annual national portfolio competition. | | | American Democracy Campaign: Trust for Representative Democracy's new outreach and education campaign about American Democracy. |
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| | Representation - The Journal of Representative Democracy |
| | Robert Richie - Center for Voting and Democracy, Washington, USA | | | Its primary focus is the study of elections and voting systems; but it has a general interest in all matters relating to the theme of ‘representative democracy’. | | | Joe Rogaly - UK Michael Steed - University of Kent at Canterbury, UK Joseph F. Zimmerman - State University of New York at Albany, USA |
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http://www.representation.org.uk
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| | Representative Democracy |
| | While all those active in public life may have professed honorablemotives, such as the defense of the rights of the people or theenlargement of the authority of the senate, what they were reallyout for was their own ends which they disguised as measures for thegood of the state. | | | I represented my districtin my town's R.T.M., and offer the experience as relevant to representative democracy generally.I ran as a democrat, but my activities interested neither party leaders nor constituents.In twelve years of public office, no one asked me for anything. | | | The one time a referendummeasured my representative vote against the popular will, I was reversed. |
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| | Ed Folsom on Whitman and Representation |
| | Our political experience cast representation as the erasing of individual distinctions in elected representatives who acted on the behalf of the majority who elected them, but who were in no way obligated to be part of them or to be like them or to enact the identity that joined them. | | | Whitman, like many Americans, had become suspect of what was passing for representative democracy, and he began writing poems that called on Americans to resist being represented by anyone who spoke in a voice that did not re-present them and all Americans. | | | The poetry of democratic representation would ultimately succeed where the politics of representative democracy had failed, so Whitman believed, and it would work by becoming the most capacious representative, the voice that would speak for the full range of human possibility within the diverse culture, from slaves to masters of slaves. |
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| | Representative democracy |
| | The issue of defence and promotion of representative democracy goes to the core of much of the action of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, which adopted a Universal Declaration on Democracy in 1997. | | | Through its Programme for the Study and Promotion of Representative Institutions, the IPU improves knowledge on the working of Parliaments by gathering and disseminating information on their constitutional powers, structure and working methods, on the status of their members, on electoral systems, and on national parliamentary elections and their results. | | | On certain occasions, the Conference has spoken out in defence of parliamentary institutions in individual countries, as was the case with Haiti, Peru and Niger. |
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http://www.ipu.org/iss-e/rprsdem.htm
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| | EconPapers: Endogenous Party Formation in a Model of Representative Democracy |
| | This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title. | | | We thus show that allowing for parties to form severely restricts the range of possible equilibria in the citizen candidate model. | | | Working Paper: Endogenous party formation in a model of representative democracy (2000) |
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| | Trust for Representative Democracy: America's Legislators Back to School Lesson Plans |
| | Trust for Representative Democracy: America's Legislators Back to School Lesson Plans | | | The plans complement the NCSL publication "Your Ideas Count," a student booklet used by legislators as a "leave behind" resource after their classroom visit. | | | Lesson Plan IV: "Why Compromise?" -- The Importance of Compromise in a Representative Democracy |
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| | An Economic Model of Representative Democracy |
| | First, it is a conceptualization of a pure form of representative democracy in which government is by, as well as of, the people. | | | ""An Economic Model of Representative Democracy''," CARESS Working Papres 95-02, University of Pennsylvania Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences. | | | "An Economic Model of Representative Democracy," Penn CARESS Working Papers ecf70d639d700dba5327ab0c8, UCLA Department of Economics. |
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| | Representative Democracy - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "Representative Democracy" is defined. | | | We found 3 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word Representative Democracy: |
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| | EconPapers: CARESS Working Papres |
| | "Efficient Policy Choice in a Representative Democracy: A Dynamic Analysis'' |
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