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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Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.
If one wishes to realize the distance which may lie between “facts” and the meaning of facts, let one go to the field of social discussion.
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.
The relationships of husband and wife, parent and children, older and younger children, friend and friend, are the bonds from which authority proceeds.