31.   No one seriously tries to defend it as an exercise in representative government, as if the voters were actually choosing someone else to choose the president for them.

32.   On Wednesday, he warned that a truly representative government must be dominated by the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan, Pashtuns like himself.

33.   Recently regilded with Florentine gold leaf, the dome, which symbolizes representative government in the United States, has once again become a gleaming beacon over the city.

34.   Representative government, despite all its historical and current abuses, succeeds pretty well at preventing change from happening at too rapid a pace.

35.   Still, the Capitol shooting seemed to strike a nerve among tourists who had come to marvel at the seat of representative government.

36.   That body is supposed to form a more representative government than the one hastily constructed in Bonn, as well as ratify a constitution.

37.   That is also the view of some of the classical theorists of representative government, such as British statesman and conservative hero Edmund Burke.

38.   Supporters hail such initiatives as popular democracy in action, but critics call them a potentially dangerous subversion of representative government.

39.   That means representative government, not government by popular referendum.

40.   Term limits are a bad idea that weaken representative government.