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n. An electoral system where citizens vote to elect people in an assembly to represent their interests and concerns. Those elected people meet to debate and make laws on behalf of the whole community or society, instead of the people voting directly on laws and other debates. The assembly basically speaks for the citizens and it basically "represents" them. This governmental system is used mostly in Australia and the United States.
Usage examples of "representative government".
I'm convinced that when she and her closest associates decided to support the plebiscite, they believed the Star Kingdom's version of representative government was essentially a faç.
I'm convinced that when she and her closest associates decided to support the plebiscite, they believed the Star Kingdom's version of representative government was essentially a fa‡.
It had been considered a rock of stability in Southwest Asia, a sultanate with educated, enlightened leadership as close to representative government as a divine family of Islam could permit.
And from the earliest years of the eighteenth century on, England enjoyed representative government, with a responsible ministry which conducted the affairs of the land.
It was their historical understanding (based on the writings of Samuel von Pufendorf and Hugo Grotius) that the rights they claimed by way of the English could be traced back to the Anglo-Saxons (as depicted by Tacitus in his Germa-nid), who had curbed royal power by introducing a measure of representative government.
They made no pretense of representative government in Teyzha, or of social equality, or any of the other democratic or egalitarian habits Old Earth had passed on to its colonies.
Political organization was evil, representative government an imposition.
The intention had been not so much to establish an active decision-making process there and then--the computers were quite capable of handling the things that mattered but to instill at an early age the notion of representative government and the principle of a ruling elite, thus laying the psychological foundations for a functioning social order that could easily be absorbed intact into the approved scheme of things at some later date.
They have never heard of representative government there and wouldn’.
They have never heard of representative government there and wouldn't want it if they had.
Nor did She really worry about the post-election pause of three years before the next democratic convulsion, for the American version of representative government assures that such qualities of intellect and ethics as might equip a man to lead a powerful nation responsibly are precisely the qualities that would prevent him from subjecting himself to the debasing performances of vote begging and delegate swapping.
Stoat began to explain his unsung role in the machinations of representative government, but the one-eyed man slammed a fist so hard on the polished wood that Stoat's picture frames toppled.