The United States is a Democratic Republic as established by our Founding Fathers, land and slave owners, to ensure their plutocracy would remain in control via a constrained democracy.
The fall of the Roman Republic, in any case, left a bad thousand-year savor, a certainty that democracy, even constrained republican democracy, was doomed by demagoguery.
That said, socio-political issues are generally more prevalent in the advent of new governments, and that technology companies have played a significant role both in supporting and constraining pro-democracy movements in recent times (Crane et al., 2013), thus leading to national drivers of political reform.
The governor said that the Cossacks should act more freely than the police, whose operations are constrained by "democracy" and "human rights": "What they can't do, he said, a Cossack can".
Mr Clark's very mildness should not be allowed to distract from this new and unwelcome attempt to constrain local democracy, which exposes the hollowness of Mr Cameron's rhetoric.
Attempts to depict protections vital to our democracy as constraining the exercise of free speech or the tool of an oppressive government must be rejected.
But their power may be constrained, even in democracies, as intermediary liability is seized upon as the easy way to fight crime, porn, defamation and intellectual property piracy.
Thus, globalization is taken to be a macro-sociological, aggregative fact that constrains the realization of democracy so long as the proper congruence between decision makers and decision takers is lacking.
Democracy by Joan Didion To call this a Vietnam novel would be both accurate and far too constraining.
Or constraining it somewhat.
