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Totally done with all of that damned Systems homework.
A democratic government, by its nature, requires that its citizens take an active part in government. With this in mind, the Constitution calls for a balance of power to be shared between the government and the citizenry; The Constitution, in other words, both facilitates and limits the power of the government, consequentially requiring some degree of participation by the “common people.” The primary method and mode of this participation is disputable; several different forms of citizen participation are available, such as town hall meetings, referendums, interest groups, and so forth. These forms of expression are required in our imperfect democracy. Newer, more democratic forms of citizen participation are being proposed (for example, Internet voting) in the effort to give the average citizen more influence over the decisions that shape her world. However, elected officials are still necessary to the democratic process, by simple virtue of the fact that the average citizen is too preoccupied with the nuances of daily life to carefully study all of the issues that comprise any single political decision, much less the entire spectrum of such decisions that affect him.
Miller Time.
A democratic government, by its nature, requires that its citizens take an active part in government. With this in mind, the Constitution calls for a balance of power to be shared between the government and the citizenry; The Constitution, in other words, both facilitates and limits the power of the government, consequentially requiring some degree of participation by the “common people.” The primary method and mode of this participation is disputable; several different forms of citizen participation are available, such as town hall meetings, referendums, interest groups, and so forth. These forms of expression are required in our imperfect democracy. Newer, more democratic forms of citizen participation are being proposed (for example, Internet voting) in the effort to give the average citizen more influence over the decisions that shape her world. However, elected officials are still necessary to the democratic process, by simple virtue of the fact that the average citizen is too preoccupied with the nuances of daily life to carefully study all of the issues that comprise any single political decision, much less the entire spectrum of such decisions that affect him.
Miller Time.