Democracy - a discussion lead by Roger Jennings
Tuesday 12 July 2016
19:30 to 21:00
Thomas Jefferson is claimed to have said: “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” In the light of the EU Referendum, is this true? Does democracy inevitably imply ochlocracy (mob rule), what do we mean by 'democracy' anyway and is it in practice achievable only through some system of representative government?