We have every reason to think that whatever changes may take place in existing democratic machinery, they will be of a sort to make the interest of the public a more supreme guide and criterion of governmental activity, and to enable the public to form and manifest its purposes still more authoritatively.
Dewey predicts that future changes in democracy will prioritize public interest in governance.
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Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?
Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons traverse the globe.
The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.
There are even those who hold that the presumption is always that social loss will result from agents of the public doing anything which could be done by persons in their private capacity.