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But that’s not enough. Today, we have a wide range of tools for making democracy a real and living proposition. They enable us to refine our choices and engage directly in politics whenever we wish. I’m talking about deliberative, participatory democracy.

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Representative democracy should be tempered by participatory democracy. If we are going to have two chambers, one should be the House of Commons, the other should be the entire population of 67 million people.

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