... rule? In this essay there are two main things that I need to address. Firstly what representative democracy means and the different forms of it. Secondly to discuss the next part of the question. Does it promote popular rule? To do this I will look at the Models of representative democracy and also situations which arise throughout society, to answer the question. Representative democracy is by definition "a democracy ... forward. This was not really viable and John Stuart Mill strongly disagrees stating "self government can only occur when the state is small enough for the whole state...

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• Grade Level: High School