If we do not perceive that this organization is equivalent to the equipment of the public with official representatives to care for the interests of the public, we shall miss the clew to the nature of government.
Dewey emphasizes the importance of understanding government as a representation of public interests.
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The relationships of husband and wife, parent and children, older and younger children, friend and friend, are the bonds from which authority proceeds.
But it indicates where the problem resides, whatever guise it assumes.
The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.
There are those who speak as if ability to choose between two tickets were a high exercise of individual freedom.