Democracy -- Checks and Balances

As James Madison, one of the central figures in the drafting of the United States of America’s Constitution and later fourth president once wrote, “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." Democracy is defined as a government, which derives its power from the consent of the people, given in regular, free, and fair elections under conditions of freedom of …

…achieving a higher degree of representative accountability than presently exists in Canada. In order to achieve said goal it is imperative that one looking into the style of other democratic countries for review, as well as aspects of the current Canadian system re-sighted. If a truly democratic political system is the objective of the Canadian government there must be a better built in method of checks and balances and a higher degree of representative accountability.