It is democratically legitimate to want to protest – but it is also important to take oneself and one's vote seriously.
The democratically elected Congress is still in place and despite the terrorist attack on the American mission, Libyans have spontaneously united to denounce violence and rebuild their nation.
My view is that democratically elected politicians have a right to shape education policy, but not to double-guess the operational decisions of professionals.
He says: "It is a disturbing suggestion that a democratically elected government would seek to stamp on and silence dissent from an independent broadcaster".
Yes, the Liberal Democrats want to return powers from Whitehall to councils, which would make education more democratically accountable and probably improve the quality of decisions.
In 1970, as the Northern Ireland Troubles escalated, Gerry Fitt, John Hume and others associated with the civil rights campaign banded together to form a new grouping that they called the SDLP, to pursue their demands, democratically and peacefully, in both the Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont and at Westminster.
Modi is a democratically elected authoritarian, but he is one with whom Merkel and Hollande are happy to do business.
Sisi has been discussed as a potential head of state ever since he ousted Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, last July, and replaced him with the judge, Adly Mansour.
To Egypt, then, and Mr Blair's declaration that the military removal of a country's first democratically elected head of state represents exciting progress for the Middle East, along with the violent crackdowns and human rights abuses that have followed.
But the result was a personal disaster for Jonathan, 57, earning him an unwanted place in history as Nigeria's first democratically unseated leader.
2. To achieve these objectives, we believe that the economy should be run democratically at all levels, from local to global.
