Gina Miller Quotes

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.

I have great respect for British political institutions. I regard the British Parliament as the most democratic institution in the world, and the independence and impartiality of its judiciary never fail to arouse my admiration.

Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.

My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.

It is supposed an undoubted right of Englishmen not to be taxed but by their own consent given through their representatives.

The Turkish state has neither a crowned head nor a dictator.

I wish to make it clear from the onset that at the coming election I want support on no other understanding that the new Parliament is to destroy once and for ever, the power of the hereditary chamber to reverse the decisions of the representatives of the people.

In America you elect the electoral college and they select the President. In Russia, the people select the President directly. This is more democratic.

Not that I distrust the King, but that I cannot give trust except in a parliamentary way.

All free governments must consist of two councils, a lesser and a greater.

Constitutional democracy is a Western idea.

theodemocracy

Parliament of Parliaments

As for us BRITONS, thank Heaven, we have a better Sense of Government deliver’d to us from our Ancestors. We have the Notion of A PUBLIC and A CONSTITUTION; how a Legislative, and how an Executive is model’d.

Liberty is best preserved, where the legislative power is lodged in several persons, especially if those persons are of different ranks and interests; for where they are of the same rank, and consequently have an interest to manage peculiar to that rank, it differs but little from a despotical government in a single person.

England is the mother of Parliaments.

If we carefully consider what our constitution is, we will conclude that it is, in fact, a limited monarchy.

Although England, and the rest of the United Kingdom, possesses momentous constitutional texts and significant statutes, since the 1600s there has been no systematic attempt to codify the powers and limits of the British executive and the rights of those it governs.

We have never said that we want to challenge the institution of Parliament.

In a parliamentary democracy, it is the job of parliament to decide the law, not the government.

Democracy is better than tyranny.

Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.