{"id":5054,"date":"2013-07-18T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5054"},"modified":"2018-08-03T15:53:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T19:53:59","slug":"thursday-july-18-2013-steve-muhlberger-on-democracy-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5054","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, July 18, 2013 \u2014 Steve Muhlberger on \u201cDemocracy in Trouble\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fine, suc\u00adcinct <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/smuhlberger.blogspot.ca\/2013\/07\/democracy-in-trouble.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">post on the cur\u00adrent dys\u00adfunc\u00adtion\u00adal state of democ\u00adra\u00adcy<\/span><\/a><\/span> in both Cana\u00adda and the Unit\u00aded States.<\/p>\n<p>sam\u00adple:<\/p>\n<p><em>Indeed an even more impor\u00adtant prin\u00adci\u00adple has been lost track of in just the last few years. That is the idea that the Prime Min\u00adis\u00adter and his cab\u00adi\u00adnet only hold office when they can com\u00admand the con\u00adfi\u00addence of the House of Com\u00admons. Remem\u00adber when Steven Harp\u00ader was held in con\u00adtempt of Par\u00adlia\u00adment by major\u00adi\u00adty of the mem\u00adbers? And the Gov\u00ader\u00adnor Gen\u00ader\u00adal let him get away with ignor\u00ading this and treat\u00ading it as mere\u00adly a par\u00adti\u00adsan stunt? One can have a cer\u00adtain amount of sym\u00adpa\u00adthy for the Gov\u00ader\u00adnor Gen\u00ader\u00adal who prob\u00ada\u00adbly felt that if she fired Harp\u00ader instead of let\u00adting him pro\u00adrogue Par\u00adlia\u00adment, she would enjoy no sup\u00adport what\u00adso\u00adev\u00ader in the polit\u00adi\u00adcal class. She was right, but right here the Cana\u00addi\u00adan Con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion broke down, and few peo\u00adple noticed or at least took it seriously.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fine, suc\u00adcinct post on the cur\u00adrent dys\u00adfunc\u00adtion\u00adal state of democ\u00adra\u00adcy in both Cana\u00adda and the Unit\u00aded States. sam\u00adple: Indeed an even more impor\u00adtant prin\u00adci\u00adple has been lost track of in just the last few years. That is the&nbsp;idea&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5054\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-an-blog-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5054"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5303,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions\/5303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}