Democracy in the Light of Scripture (F.B. Hole)What does Scripture say about governance?
Keywords: Policy; Go to the polls
Democracy presents itself to us as the finished product of the wisdom of the ages. History gives us, it may be said, the long and dismal record of human experiments in the art of government, and profiting by past experience the democratic idea has ... morebeen evolved, and now holds the field amongst enlightened nations. It is – to use Abraham Lincoln’s famous phrase – “Government of the people, by the people, for the people.” In practice it comes to this, that the people are to be governed by a majority of the people – for they are never unanimous, and hence the minority must give way – and that majority should rule by its accredited representatives for the good of all the people and not for the majority’s interests only. Whether it really does so is of course another thing.