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The Québec Advisory Council On The Administration Of Justice Le Conseil Consultatif De Justice, Maxwell Cohen

Dalhousie Law Journal

Among the classical problems of democratic government perhaps few are so continuing in their challenge to the political imagination as the creation of better methods to balance the interests and the strategies of the governors and the governed. While in a loose sense democratic systems posit the notion that 'sovereignty' lies with 'the people' it is not without significance that the New Left and their varied allies now employ "power to the people" as a slogan that becomes a critique of the conventional machinery of representative government. For these reasons there are to be found, increasingly, in many western democratic …