21.   Nowhere is there participation in the political process corresponding to any conception of representative democracy.

22.   Nor will it be cured by bringing in new measures that make representative democracy even less accountable and less responsible.

23.   Our representative democracy needs reform.

24.   Referendums rightly have a limited role in representative democracies.

25.   Representative democracy, as expressed by Burke, requires elected officials to exercise their judgment in the best interest of the nation.

26.   The accord envisioned, even demanded, a representative democracy in the Palestinian autonomous zone, not a police state.

27.   The author of the Declaration of Independence understood that a representative democracy requires an informed electorate.

28.   The coming decline of the nation-state, he fears, will augur the fall of representative democracy.

29.   The founders chose a representative democracy instead of an unwieldy pure democracy that required the citizens to vote on all laws and budgets.

30.   The leaders underscored that the sanctions were only being suspended and could be reimposed any time until representative democracy is restored.