If that right is taken away or eroded, elections are moot and democracy cannot really survive.

But democracy survived then, and there is reason to hope it will respond sturdily now.

But there is real question whether democracy can survive procedures which exclude the people from decisions.

Italian democracy and its resilient politicians have survived far worse.

- democracy could survive granting the vote to men without property.

The immediate question is whether democracy can survive until a new president takes office on July 28, 1990.

It's in our interests that we help this young democracy survive and grow strong.

Our democracy has survived because of the separation of church and state.

He also made special mention of the press, saying that "without a really free mass media, Russian democracy simply will not survive."

Certainly they do not share his belief that true democracy can survive without majority rule.