Did I read this right?<br>".... a government that
      grants power to democratically elected representatives."?<br><br>I thought it was the people that grant 'democratically elected' representatives the power to from a government ....<br><br>Rui<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 11 July 2012 18:59, Thomas Lowenhaupt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:toml@communisphere.com" target="_blank">toml@communisphere.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

  

    
  
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    An op-ed in Today's New York Times might be of interest to this list
    - a different type of multi-stakeholderism.<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/opinion/a-confucian-constitution-in-china.html?ref=opinion" target="_blank"></a><br>
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    It starts as follows:<br>
    <h1><u></u>A Confucian Constitution for China<u></u></h1>
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      <h6>By <span><span>JIANG
            QING</span></span> and <span><span>DANIEL A. BELL</span></span></h6>
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          ON Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave <a title="Clinton Mongolia speech" href="http://m.state.gov/md194696.htm" target="_blank">a speech in Mongolia
          </a>denouncing Asian governments that seek “to restrict
          people’s access to ideas and information, to imprison them for
          expressing their views, to usurp the rights of citizens to
          choose their leaders.” It was a swipe at <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/china/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" title="More news and information about China." target="_blank">China</a>’s authoritarian political system.
          The view that China should become more democratic is widely
          held in the West. But framing the debate in terms of democracy
          versus authoritarianism overlooks better possibilities.<br>
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          <p>For Op-Ed, follow <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/nytopinion" target="_blank">@nytopinion</a>
            and to hear from the editorial page
            editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/andyrNYT" target="_blank">@andyrNYT</a>.</p>
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      The political future of China is far likelier to be determined by
      the longstanding Confucian tradition of “humane authority” than by
      Western-style multiparty elections. After all, democracy is flawed
      as an ideal. Political legitimacy is based solely on the
      sovereignty of the people — more specifically, a government that
      grants power to democratically elected representatives. But there
      is no compelling reason for a government to have only one source
      of legitimacy.<br>
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    <p>and finishes here - <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/opinion/a-confucian-constitution-in-china.html?ref=opinion" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/opinion/a-confucian-constitution-in-china.html?ref=opinion.</a><br>

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    <p>Tom<br>
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