1.   Death will before long end their mockery of representative government.

2.   It is not simply ideas of fairness that move the public, but a desire for representative government.

3.   It seeks to put legislative power directly into the hands of the people and circumvent the long-standing institutions of representative government.

4.   Old-fashioned and boring representative government has its strengths as well as its weaknesses.

5.   That led many political commentators to indulge in hand-wringing about how apathetic Californians were about representative government.

6.   They discard the traditional system of checks and balances of representative government.

7.   It suggests that the cost is an over-expanded higher level of representative government.

8.   And it is another spadeful of dirt on the notion, naive in retrospect, that either smart bombs or representative government would transform war into something more humane.

9.   At some point, representative government needs to start fighting back.

10.   At the same time, the responsibilities of the council were broadened as a way to create a more representative government.