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Posted on August 2, 2018 by Vassilis Lambropoulos | Comments Off on Katlyn Marie Carter: “The Invention of Representative Democracy”

‘In the 1790s, as the discourse of “representative democracy” began to take hold, the salient differences between the two terms were muddled.’

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