Well of course we do, we pretty much all live in democracies. In principle of course the 2 can be seperated.
But there's also a fairly good argument, that if you want to give everyone an equal voice and make decisions based on what the majority want (which seems to be what people in Egypt want), the simplest way to do that is to present decisions to the people, devise a way for them to indicate their preference (like writing on a piece of paper and sticking in a box), then count up all the preferences and declaring which way you are going to go on the issue.
Or if that's too difficult because there is so many people and so many issues to decide, instead you get them to do exactly the same thing to regularly choose people they think best represents their position, and then get those representative to do all the sticking things in boxes for them.
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But there's also a fairly good argument, that if you want to give everyone an equal voice and make decisions based on what the majority want (which seems to be what people in Egypt want), the simplest way to do that is to present decisions to the people, devise a way for them to indicate their preference (like writing on a piece of paper and sticking in a box), then count up all the preferences and declaring which way you are going to go on the issue.
Or if that's too difficult because there is so many people and so many issues to decide, instead you get them to do exactly the same thing to regularly choose people they think best represents their position, and then get those representative to do all the sticking things in boxes for them.
Sound like anything you know about?