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    Representative democracy is the best ideal form of govern... — Carmelics
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    Representative democracy is the best ideal form of government for societies with sufficient resources, security, and a culture of self-reliance.

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    • 1.Good government promotes the common good, understood as the moral, intellectual, and active development of citizens.
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    • 2.Good government makes effective use of institutions and citizen resources to promote the common good.
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    • 3.Representative democracy best satisfies both criteria of good government among available forms.
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    • 1.Deliberative legitimacy requires epistemic competence that majority rule systematically undermines through aggregating uninformed preferences.
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    • 2.Epistocratic or technocratic arrangements better track truth and welfare than popular vote on complex policy questions (Estlund, Brennan).
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    • 3.A government structurally prone to rational ignorance cannot satisfy Mill's own criterion of promoting citizens' intellectual development.
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    • 1.Rousseau's general will cannot be identified through representative mechanisms, which substitute elite interests for authentic collective self-legislation.
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    • 2.Representation structurally alienates citizens from sovereignty, producing passive subjects rather than the self-reliant agents Mill claims democracy cultivates.
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    In Considerations on Representative Government Mill argues that a form of representative democracy is the best ideal form of government. It is not an invariant ideal that holds regardless of historical or social circumstances. But he does think that it is the best form of government for societies with sufficient resources, security, and culture of self-reliance. In particular, Mill thinks that representative democracy is best, when it is best, because it best satisfies two criteria of all good g
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