It would be easy to accept the popular notion that only representative democratic regimes can be legitimate, after all, that is what is familiar to citizens of the modern Western world and humans, being creatures of habit, will often accept the status quo as that which is right. ... Therefore it appears that one condition necessary for democratic legitimacy is a fully competitive process-driven aggregative democracy with perfect information to allow citizens to make a fully informed choice. ...

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