Quote by Murray N. Rothbard

“Where democracy – as an evident necessity – has to be organized through representation, actors coincide with groups-interests. In a representative democracy the interests…

— Leo Klinkers

“Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.”

— Giuseppe Prezzolini

“The assumption that agents are rational provides the intellectual foundation for the libertarian approach to public policy: do not interfere with the individual’s right…

— Daniel Kahneman

Governments are not representative.

— Noam Chomsky

Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“As long as you have broad representation from many parts of society, representative government works extremely well. And it works even better when the…

— Ben Carson

A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in…

— Thomas Jefferson

Having a representative democracy requires the confidence of the voters in the system. And if voters lose confidence in the system they can make…

— Richard Painter

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

— Zebulon Pike

The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body…

— James Madison

[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore,…

— Alexander Hamilton

The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage…

— H. L. Mencken