We live in a representative democracy. That is, we elect people to represent us in Parliament House and act on our behalf. It ...

Abraham Lincoln is credited with the saying, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of ...

Governments do not generally relish the pesky interference by courts with their political agenda. And this applies regardless ...

Illinois representative Sean Casten tells VF that town halls are at the core of democracy because people “deserve to have ...

Under the Constitution, Governors were entitled neither to exercise a veto nor a pocket veto over the State Legislative Assembly’s Bills. Nor could Governors first return a Bill to the State ...

In a parliamentary system, if key powers are shifted away from the elected prime minister and parliament, we risk hollowing out the very core of representative democracy. As constitutional scholar ...

Southern Rockies, said that he was inspired to run after experiencing the current social issues affecting the healthcare ...

we can’t limit ourselves to the narrow constraints of liberal democracy. Beyond the sphere of representative democracy, there are also vibrant forms of direct democracy in the community councils and ...

The courts must stand up to this abuse of power, which contradicts the very rationale for representative democracy. We will appeal.” “My constituents deserve a voice, and they deserve leaders ...

The power to schedule special elections is a gift to governors intent on doing political mischief.

but the objective remains the same from that first day when American troops died in service of a nation that was to take shape as a representative democracy, enshrined for itself a number of ...