51.   We are talking about nothing less than saving the notion of representative government.

52.   Voters rebelled Tuesday because they sense representative government is no longer in business to protect them.

53.   What, then, is representative government?

54.   When things normalized, he said, a more representative government would have to be established.

55.   Whether this was representative government at work or thinly veiled corruption was a matter of pitched debate.

56.   When last consulted, the Constitution still was premised on the proposition that representative government represents citizens, not scrub oak and prairie dogs.

57.   You and I set tax rates through referenda and the democratic institutions of representative government.

58.   Opponents of the Taliban had called for convening such a council, considered by Afghans to be one of the few broadly accepted means of finding a representative government.

59.   Advocates of more democracy still are cautious about the future, and are pressing for a faster transition to a more representative government.

60.   Advocates of more democracy still are cautious about the future and are pressing for a faster transition to a more representative government.