Talk:Representative assembly

Creation
Created today. This is a slim article, and should be extended or even replaced. In particular, in my opinion, there is a need for a moderately detailed answer to the question "OK, that's its history, but what IS it?". My main reasons for creating it were (1) to avoid a dead link in the article on Samuel Finer, (2) because it's important as a general concept as opposed to the particular examples such as US Congress, Swedish Riksdag, etc. A third justification also arises: (3) to be hanger for links to various other related concepts, in particular specific examples of representative assembly such as the above. AWhiteC 23:52, 17 March 2006 (UTC), revised AWhiteC 22:15, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Further observations
I have done some rewording and reorganising, and I now feel that it is a matter of opinion whether it requires expansion or not. It is light (to non-existent) on describing the representative assembly as it is found in the modern world, but has links to some highly relevant articles – so it may be argued that it is fulfulling its purpose as it is: defining the term and giving a sketch history plus links to places where the details are spelled out. AWhiteC 10:43, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Classical, including Roman, assemblies
Slurpy121, I have been working on your text about Roman assemblies and direct democracy. I realised that you had made a very valid point, so I reworded it, streamlined it a bit, made it more general by adding mention of Greece and Carthage, and added more text about direct and indirect democracy. What do you think? Please discuss in here. AWhiteC (talk) 20:37, 31 December 2012 (UTC)


 * You make a good point, and I'm sorry for reverting your last change in the article since I didn't get the chance to talk it over with you. But I made some research and you are right, since in the Athenian assembly, citizens met to talk about the politics of the city (the people were their own government). Although I don't have anything about Carthage but I must say since you seem confident with your info, I'll leave it there. So like I said, The information looks good and sufficient and again, sorry for reverting it. Happy New Year! (Slurpy121 (talk) 00:03, 1 January 2013 (UTC))

To Do

 * Format citations as "" AWhiteC (talk) 00:21, 11 December 2007 (UTC)