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Part 1 - Sovereignty of the Electorate Baron de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (in French), 1748. In the republican, the people in a body possess the sovereign power. Montesquieu wrote in his seminal work on political theory: in a democracy, the People are sovereign (in modern parlance). In other words, the electorate... 

在早报网论坛看到林斯戈先生2013年2月24日发表的帖子《叶明应该收回这言论并公开道歉》， 觉得写得非常好，此建议可行，值得参考。因为民主讨论的真谛就是要妥协和move on，如果李叶明先生的言论遭到大多数新加坡人的否决和声讨，就不应该继续躲在自己小圈子靠几个人取暖（有人在《随笔南洋网》发了一个帖子叫做《我挺李叶... 

I refer to the 18 Feb 2013 Straits Times letter “Closing door to foreigners is un-Singaporean” by Mr Simon Huang Minghui [1]. Mr Huang describes Singapore’s achievements with the over-used phrase “punch above its weight”. Singapore has been punching above its weight even during colonial days, yet there was never a...