representative government

What is really going on here—in extremis—is representative government.

In a system of representative government, the mass of people are almost always poorer than their candidates.

Another has chiefly considered the development of representative government and of parliamentary institutions.

The chief object of this society was the foundation of an adequate representative Government.

Louis Napoleon's usurpation is absolved, is made laudable to him, because it overthrew a representative government.

The honest and independent exercise of the right of suffrage is a vital principle in the theory of representative government.

Judged by the methods of representative government the Council was rather a burlesque.