After decades of an ever-lengthening judicial reach and an ever-increasing appetite for legal remedies by cantankerous citizens dissatisfied with their lot in life, it seems sadly appropriate that democracy itself has been reduced to just another entry on someone's docket.
"I think that's appropriate, in a democracy.
"There's a long tradition, and it's appropriate to a democracy, of politicians saying, 'I'm just like you,' " Mr. Moynihan said.
On what grounds can you presume to judge the appropriate progress of democracy in Egypt, when you regrettably take such an ingenuously culturalist perspective?
In Japan, a de facto one-party state for the last half century, only maverick politicians in a few places, like Kamakura and Nagano, have abolished the press clubs, saying they are not appropriate in a democracy.
The key to it all is that old tongue-twister, subsidiarity, meaning that all decisions must be taken at the lowest appropriate level.Swiss democracy works from the bottom up.
Many who suffered under the military in the past, and who are still critical of the army for its continuing rights abuses, say that the best hope for eventually developing an army whose conduct is appropriate for a democracy is to send officers to schools in the United States.
The AFL CIO's example of open support was deemed to be appropriate for a democracy, and much more suitable than the clandestine funding through the CIA that had occurred before 1970.
Elder Dallin H. Oaks spoke on the Sunday afternoon session about opposition, and specifically about opposition from within the church: "However appropriate for a democracy, there is no warrant for this concept in the government of God's kingdom, where questions are honored but opposition is not".
"To use the same standards and criteria and expectations that are appropriate to mature democracies might be demanding too much of our institutions," he said.
