In this essay I develop a position I've held for some time but never quite laid out: representative democracy is not about expressing some sort of will of the people or anything so abstract as that. It's about giving the many interests in society an institutional outlet for their demands, and far from being purely more moral than non-democracies, it is also much more practical.
A Realist Defense of Legislative Supremacy
Representative democracy is not merely more moral than alternatives, it is a far more practical way to deal with the realities of the modern world.
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