Tag: Representative Democracy

Letters to Seffican

500 years ago, Machiavelli warned the public not to get complacent in the face of self-interested charismatic figures

  Possibly without the trappings of the 18th century

In the spirit of representative democracy, government cannot afford to spend public funds from the BOM without accepting a mimimum level of parliamentary scrutiny

The people’s revolt against the prevailing political system and the political class demand radical changes. Democracy must truly mean a ‘government of the people, by the people for

The patience of the people has worn out. For the people, there is no place for dead wood.