POL201Y1 Lecture : lec. feb. 07
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When that link between political leadrs and god gets severed, they need a new form of legitimacy, so after this link is severed, legitimacy was made through the will of the people. It obligates citizens to abide by govnerment laws and policies, if you are voting for something, you hav ehte right to criticize. This is where this tradeoff between rights and responsibility comes from. The right to vote creates or generates the responsibility to abide by the laws of leaders that you hav eparticiapated in electing. Oting, elections, electoral systems, and modes of repsresneition, is modern democratic systems. So what we are talking about is representative democracy. In direct democracy, people literally discuss issues and laws, and gets passed when there is consesnsus. However the growth of democratic states has required that we change from direct to rep. democracy.