If a matter is best dealt with by a democratic association, seek always to have that matter dealt with by the smallest association that can deal with… - Robert A. Dahl

The democratic process in governing a country is not necessarily enhanced by democratizing subsidiary parts of the process.

That democratization has never closely approached its theoretical limits, either in the government of the state or in the government of other institutions, is revealed in the three great historical movement toward democratizing the state.

I concluded also that Madison had more confidence in majorities than I gave him credit for; or more accutely, that he was somewhat less distrustful and hostile to majority rule than I had supposed.