In his address, “Framing Our American Evolution: Democracy, Diversity and Opportunity,” Gates reflected on the history of representative government in the U.S., which began just before the first ...

Build a vision: The benefits of representative government are manifold—liberty, opportunity for economic prosperity, flourishing civil society, and the health, safety, and welfare of its citizens.

The legislative process in the House and Senate should facilitate such consideration. This representative dynamic was a conscious decision on the part of the Framers of the Constitution.

The entire US political system is built on an idea of representation. Indeed, representative government is guaranteed to every state by the US Constitution (Article IV, Section 4).

I often hear people argue (often quite militantly) that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. But that’s a false dichotomy. A common definition of “republic” is, to quote the ...

U.S. Army Col. (Ret.) Pat Proctor is a Kansas representative and chairman of the Kansas House Committee on Elections. He is ...

SGA Constitution We, the Students of Saint Louis University-Madrid, in order to establish a representative student government; to provide an open forum for dialogue and a voice for student opinions ...

As Northeast and North Central Nebraskans prepare to celebrate Independence Day, we take note of the 2024 Best Countries ...

The preamble to the Hawaii State Constitution states that a purpose of Hawaii’s government in to “… preserve the quality of life that we desire.” We have a representative democracy.

This fact of pluralism was deeply connected to individual liberty and served as an important animating principle behind the specific form of government established by the Constitution.

Under Section 25 of the state’s constitution, slavery and involuntary servitude are outlawed “except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.

Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY), vice chair of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, talked about the work of that panel on the same day it held ...