And it could be objected that Mr Casini's plan for a grand coalition to keep in power an unelected prime minister is democratically questionable.

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NATO--though that would put huge power into unelected hands.

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Considerable lawmaking power is delegated to unelected bureaucrats at agencies, something that must be addressed by Congress.

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Obamacare also established the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), an unelected, appointed body with the power to adopt still more Medicare cuts as it deems necessary.

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For over 30 years, I have been urging all Americans to educate themselves about monetary policy in order to better understand how a small group of unelected individuals at the Fed and the Treasury Department wield tremendous power over our lives.

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Though he came to power democratically in 1997, Mr Banzer after all was Bolivia's unelected boss, thanks to a military coup, from 1971 to 1978.

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It doesn't forget to remind that Mr Singh is an "unelected" prime minister who "lacks a political base of his own, " and that political power is held by Mrs Gandhi who holds no cabinet position.

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