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representative democracy
b. Based on chosen (typically elected) representatives, or on the principle of political representation. Frequently in representative democracy, representative government.
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1774 tr. F. J. de Chastellux Ess. Public Happiness II. i. 69 These assembles rather contribute to shake the feodal government, than to establish a representative government.
1792 J. Downes Protest against T. Paine's ‘Rights of Man’ 27 What he chuses to call ‘the new representative system engrafted on Democracy’ is, according to his ideas, the only good plan of Government.
1795 J. Bicheno Word in Season 41 Suspicious of monarchy under every modification, they determined to adopt a representative form of government.
1830 Hansard's Parl. Deb. n.s. 24 1011/1 The hon. and gallant officer has said, that he did not think this colony would be fit for a representative system of government whilst slavery existed.
1830 J. Bentham Constit. Code in Wks. (1843) IX. 38 Under a representative democracy..there can be no lese majesty.
1852 A. R. Scoble tr. M. Guizot Hist. Origin Representative Govt. Europe i. i. 12 We do not then, make an arbitrary choice..when we make the representative form of government the central idea and aim of our history of the political institutions of Europe.
1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 2) vi. 89 We mean by a Representative Government one in which the body of the people..elect their deputies to a chamber of their own.
1911 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 38 760 The preferential ballot for cities is a plan to restore majority elections and true representative government.
1928 F. D. Lugard (title) Representative forms of government and ‘indirect rule’ in British Africa.
1968 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 July 31/2 Those who really are committed to ‘participatory democracy’..are separated by an ideological abyss from those traditional representatives of ‘representative democracy’.
1991 J. Kingdom Local Govt. & Politics in Brit. viii. 120 Although councillors in the real world do not generally muse upon theories of representative government, they must establish a view of their role.
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