• There are no elected representatives of the people and no state budgets open to public scrutiny.

    CNN: Editorial: Royal Flushed

  • However, she stressed that UK laws are "made by the elected representatives of the people in Parliament", adding: "Our democracy is subverted when judges decide to take on that role for themselves".

    BBC: Theresa May

  • While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • And yet, in the name of protecting democracy, or protecting the constitution, (Israel has no constitution), Weinstein openly flouts the authority and rejects the prerogatives of the people's elected representatives in the Knesset and the government.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Democracy strikes back

  • Their modest initiatives are aimed at restoring the power of the people through our elected representatives to determine the course of the country and to implement policies that reflect our interests and our values.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Democracy strikes back

  • The elected representatives at the council have breached their duty of trust to the people of Barnet.

    BBC: Barnet services outsourcing challenged in court

  • Precisely put, judges around the country--from the Supremes on down--are issuing diktats on a wide range of issues that should be in the hands of the people's elected representatives.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Let the American people speak through their elected representatives to find out whether the American people would be - kind of took the president now two months to make this judgment.

    NPR: Convincing the Hill on Bush's Iraq Plan

  • European citizens are asking their governments to set limits on Islamic encroachment-the minaret construction freeze voted in a Swiss referendum-and the will of the people sometimes reaches the ears of their elected representatives- forthcoming law against full facial veiling in France, cancellation of permit for a mega-mosque at London's 2012 Olympic site.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Nidra Poller on the Geert Wilders Trial

  • This policy and this bill is bullying the people of Norwich and Exeter and their elected representatives, particularly the local Liberal Democrats.

    BBC: Local Government Bill

  • If there is a majority against it, we have a problem, with the DPP and 82% of the public saying one thing and the people's elected representatives saying another.

    BBC: MPs back assisted dying guidelines

  • The Interim Guantanamo Legislative Report provides a tool the American people can use in discussing with their elected representatives the future status of Gitmo and the detainees incarcerated there.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Search

  • The result: Thanks to an ineffectual arms control agreement, the American people and their elected representatives are less informed about the real magnitude of the threat than they are entitled to be and need to be.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | EXCERPTS OF TESTIMONY BY FRANK J. GAFFNEY, JR. before the SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE

  • Political power, he argued, though divine in origin, should be exercised on behalf of the people by their elected representatives.

    ECONOMIST: The people against the mullahs

  • Activist judges, however, have begun redefining marriage by court order, without regard for the will of the people and their elected representatives.

    CNN: Transcript of State of the Union

  • The assembly comprises the 500-seat elected parliament, the House of People's Representatives, plus another 200 appointed members.

    ECONOMIST: Indonesia

  • It is hard to believe that the Obama Middle East agenda enjoys the support of the American people or their elected representatives in Congress.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obama sows a Mideast whirlwind

  • In this way, they can promulgate laws and judicial rulings that would simply never pass muster with the American people or a majority of their elected representatives.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Our society is better off when social questions such as same sex marriage are decided through debate and discussion by the people and their elected representatives, not by a handful of judges.

    FORBES: The Supreme Court Should Leave How We Marry To The States

  • That this legislation will become law, however, is far from certain, and it is of critical importance that the American people convey to their elected representatives their strong opposition to global taxes so that the Senate may act on this legislation at the earliest possible time.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: U.S. narrowly avoids ��globotaxes�� �� this time

  • These upper-chamber representatives would not be directly elected by the people, but they would still be elected tribunes of the people.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • In fact, the next president will be chosen by representatives of the People's Consultative Assembly, about three quarters of whom will be elected this June in Indonesia's first free parliamentary polls in four decades.

    CNN: A PRESIDENTIAL DARK HORSE

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