gov dc

legal status that accords full membership in a political community, but it is also an idea that encompasses civic virtue.

essential elements of good. -self restraint, the control of selfish impulses for the sake of the law or the public good. -self reliance,

the view that a large number of diverse groups control government and politics and promote policies to serve their particular interests. (al

the view that government is controlled by a relative handful of elites in government, business, the professionals, and the media who often

defined by James Madison in Federalist 10 as a majority of the people brought together by a common passion or interest adverse to the right

orm of government in which the people rule themselves either directly or through freely elected representatives.

a democracy whose institutions are designed to promote the rule of reasoned and informed majorities, usually through representative institu