Demokrati lader sig imidlertid ikke reducere til valghandlinger og parlamentariske procedurer, idet vi så blot står med den dårligste af alle styreformer - lige med undtagelse af alle de andre - for nu at bruge Winston Churchills berømte paradoks.
The life of a democracy, however, cannot be reduced to a mere succession of elections and parliamentary procedures, otherwise, as Churchill famously quipped, it would be 'the worst form of government except for all the others'.