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THE FORM of individual participation in the political organization of the state that stems from and was upheld by European and Christian civilization throughout the development of mankind has undergone a metamorphosis, losing one set of features and acquiring another. No one can say that democracy as a form of expressing the will of the majority of the electorate is perfect. While its earlier forms were practiced in the comparatively small Greek republics and cities of France in the 18th century, both of which were monocultural and monoethnic societies, a fundamentally different reality applies today.
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