The democratic procedures of the party were followed.
The bishops' process for hammering out legislation resembles some of the democratic procedures of Congress.
Yet it lays itself open in turn to doubts about whether courts are, or could ever be, truly bound by constitutions so that law rather than judges rule and, if so, whether judicial processes are not more arbitrary and prone to error for deciding constitutional outcomes than the democratic procedures and outcomes they are often thought to legitimately limit.
Do you not worry about this generating more hatred based terrorism against the US? 3) Do you really want an authoritarian ruler bypassing the democratic procedures to enforce what you believe in?
I always respect the democratic procedures applicable here.
"We see that the leaders, the authorities in Crimea are trying to match their actions to the wishes of all Crimea's inhabitants through the most democratic procedure possible, a referendum", said State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin.
But the reason why it has become possible to identify the outcomes of democratic procedure with the will of the people is not to be sought in inherent virtues of democratic procedure itself.
If, on the other hand, the majority of senators happen to be Democrats, then fair democratic procedure requires that the Senate be run as an "anarcho-syndicalist commune".
In the end, though, Putin will almost certainly prefer to maintain the patina of democratic procedure — "I have no intention to reduce everything I've done to zero" — and preserve a strong influence over his successor.
Surely not because Mr Berlusconi, a former prime minister and one of Europe's richest media magnates, has suddenly gained an appreciation of the niceties of democratic procedure.
