That government exists to serve its community, and that this purpose cannot be achieved unless the community itself shares in selecting its governors and determining their policies, are a deposit of fact left, as far as we can see, permanently in the wake of doctrines and forms, however transitory the latter.
Dewey asserts that government must be accountable to the community it serves.
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The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.
For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.
Custom consolidates what accident may have originated; established power has a way of legitimizing itself.
In no two ages or places is there the same public.