How to Use representative democracy in a Sentence
representative democracy
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That should alarm anyone who still believes in representative democracy.
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Katherine “kitty” Donovan,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Apr. 2026
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That’s part of living in a representative democracy.
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Brett Wilson,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Apr. 2026
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As citizens of a representative democracy, Americans need to be alert to those shifts.
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Noelle Swan,
Christian Science Monitor,
17 Mar. 2025
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In a representative democracy, nearly one in 10 voters never even saw a real choice.
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Newsweek Editors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Nov. 2025
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This is the opposite of representative democracy.
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Chicago Tribune,
15 June 2026
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In a representative democracy, the people are sovereign.
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Stephanie A,
The Conversation,
22 June 2026
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Our foreign policy should leverage our tremendous global influence to promote peace, human rights and representative democracy.
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Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Feb. 2026
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That’s not representative democracy.
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Jon Harris Maurer,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 May 2026
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The Sandinistas, who promised redistributive reforms within a framework of representative democracy, had a rare ability to appeal across a wide ideological spectrum.
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Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Oct. 2025
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That undermines our representative democracy and our Constitution.
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ABC News,
7 Dec. 2025
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First, some background Throughout American history, people in power have devised all sorts of creative ways to retain that power while maintaining the appearance of a truly representative democracy.
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Aj Willingham,
AJC.com,
1 May 2026
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No American silver bullet will cleanly depose Tehran’s Islamist leaders and peacefully transition the country to a stable, representative democracy.
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Karim Sadjadpour,
The Atlantic,
16 Jan. 2026
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Hundreds of people from Kansas City and across Missouri packed into the Missouri Capitol on Wednesday to protest a series of recent legislative attacks on direct and representative democracy.
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Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
21 Jan. 2026
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Left unchecked, gerrymandering will seriously damage representative democracy through manipulation of voting power.
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Jan Goldsmith,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Sep. 2025
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Geoffrey Propheter, a professor at the University of Colorado-Denver who studies sports and urban affairs, said the tensions between direct and representative democracy can create conflict for public officials who are weighing stadium-funding decisions.
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Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
8 Jan. 2026
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In 2024, Carolyn Silverman and I wrote about how 82% of the American population has been sorted into states controlled by a single party, inhibiting political choice and eroding representative democracy.
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Mary Ellen Klas,
Mercury News,
26 May 2026
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