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First ought to come the point of principle: do you want a hereditary head of state or inherited seats in legislatures?
The WP front reports a growing reaction in a number of legislatures to the ever-increasing number of people who are prevented from voting because of their criminal records: give felons back the right to vote anyway.
But he stopped short of saying that the decision ought to be overturned, suggesting instead that it is an issue best ruled on by state legislatures.
Progressive reforms such as initiatives and referendums, like Perot's vague notions of direct democracy, tended to bypass legislatures and to concentrate plebiscitary power in allegedly nonpartisan executives--the president, governors, city managers.
(Partial democracies include countries that have adopted some democratic practices, such as popular elections to legislatures with limited powers, but most have not completed the transition from autocratic practices.)