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Ottawa wants the Supreme Court to curb provincial use of the notwithstanding clause, but progressives shouldn’t cheer.

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government, there is no institutional role for the assembled people. However: ...

The original Proportional Representation (PR) system of 1978, is despised by sections of the general public and academia due to the notion created by its political critics that it was brought in to ...

To save democracy, Richard Ellis wants to replace the government's e-petition with a dedicated House of Campaigns.

When we say that we have a representative democracy here in The Bahamas, are we simply flamming again, like that tale about the Governor General being the Head Of State? We all know that the Prime ...

Junior Minister for Culture and Tourism Luce Hodge-Smith has pushed back against a key recommendation from the Constitutional ...

Malapportionment undermines the principle of "one person, one vote." The U.S. Senate, for example, gives every state two ...

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister says the mass arrest of opposition politicians and activists in Hong Kong this week is an “assault on representative democracy” in the former British colony and ...

Peter MacLeod is the principal of the public engagement firm MASS LBP. Richard Johnson is a MASS associate and writer. They are the authors of the forthcoming book, Democracy’s Second Act: Creating ...