Answers may include movements led by people like Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. (pp. 14–15)

The term refers to the situation where the rules and institutions that constitute the state, and which determine how governments are chosen, are accepted by most people as being reasonable. (p. 12)

Politics involves the public (not private) realm and the use of public/state authority. (p. 5)

As once found in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin, totalitarianism is a system of government that suppresses all dissent in the name of some supreme goal, and where the distinction between the state, government and society lose all meaning. (p. 15)

The term is used by Marxist analysts to signify the ability of society’s dominant class to have its values and beliefs accepted as the conventional wisdom in society at large. (p. 16)

In a situation where individuals belong to diverse social groups, in addition to sharing a common citizenship with each other, tolerance of group rights is encouraged and the state is less likely to be oppressive. (p. 18)

Rather than mean false information, Postman used the term to mean misleading—misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented, or superficial—information. (p. 20)

Both referendums and plebiscites allow citizens to participate and vote on important public questions. (p. 20)

As Alexis de Tocqueville argued, majoritarianism needs to be tempered by protections for individual and group rights. These rights are mostly listed in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Where a right is not listed, the justices must find analogous examples to expressed rights to interpret the unexpressed right. (p. 25)

Used in respect to democratic government, “rule of law” holds that everyone is subject to the law and that no one is above the law; in addition, no public official has the legitimate right to exercise any powers other than those assigned to his or her office by law. (pp. 21–22)

Direct democracies are governments of the citizens by the citizens and are scarce. Representative democracies refer to a type of government carried out by an elected legislature that represents the people and is found in all modern democracies. (pp. 21–22)

They include Freedom of Expression and Belief, Associational and Organization Rights, Rule of Law and Personal Autonomy and Individual Rights. (pp. 22–23)