![]() ![]() Suspicion of parliament is certainly not confined to the socialist tradition. The representative assembly, or parliament as it is called most often, is one of the oldest, most commonplace and – for the socialist tradition – most controversial democratic institutions. In modern political life it appears in the polarity of ‘state’ and ‘society’, of the unity and diversity of interests of a people. This dualism is basic for the system of representative government. But originally it arose in monarchies, wherever the monarch, representing the unity of the state, opposed the estates, representing the diverse private interests which had to be rewoven constantly into a unified whole. Nowadays the representative system is associated with the republican form of state. | Articles & Essays JK, Democracy in the 21st Century, Topics of Interest | 2 Comments ![]()
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