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Which of the following statements regarding 'Delegate' and 'Trustee' models in the context of Representative Democracy is NOT correct?
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- 1As a defender of the trustee model, Edmund Burke believed that representatives must be free to exercise their own best judgment and be accountable to constituents only at certain intervals.
- 2James Madison, the intellectual godfather of the 'trustee' position, famously said that 'parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole...'✓
- 3Defenders of the 'delegate' model argue that to make self-government work, we must find ways to keep representatives explicitly accountable.
- 4The 'Delegate' position emphasizes that elected officials should act according to the expressed wishes of their constituents.
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James Madison, the intellectual godfather of the 'trustee' position, famously said that 'parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole...'
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