Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court in Secretary, Ministry of Information and ...

Our government may not be perfect, but it’s better than all of the others. So we need to strive to keep it that way, by not ...

The fascination with how Australia does democracy says something more profound about the state of representative democracy around the world. At a time when news headlines are dominated by examples of ...

See, this is what I was talking about.There’s a reason that we employ representative democracy versus direct democracy at all levels of our government. While the former may be frustrating at ...

That said, behavioral research suggests that human nature might constrain how long democracies can survive and how widely ...

Here’s how Merriam-Webster defines the difference: “Because democracy is an abstract name for a system and republic is the ...

In a survey conducted last year by the nonprofit organization The Genron NPO, 49% of respondents said they believe representative democracy is "not functioning." The main reason cited was ...

Across 35 countries, there are some disconnects between how people rate the importance of free expression and how free they ...

It was called a “Representative Democracy” as laid out by our founding fathers. It is NOT a true democracy. If the letter writer feels strongly about a true democracy, he may be able to find ...

Meanwhile the site for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says: “The United States is a representative democracy. This means that our government is elected by citizens.” For most of my ...

Democrats have asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to invalidate the state's congressional map as illegally advantageous to ...