Detroit Free Press Brian Dickerson column: Can our divided governments be made accountable?(Column) From: Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI) | Date: June 3, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Detroit Free Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Brian Dickerson

Jun. 3--"Democracy is the worst form of government," Winston Churchill said famously, "except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

Sixty years later, American politicians still cite the late British leader's rueful observation. Like Churchill before them, they want to remind constituents that, however dysfunctional it may seem in the moment, their government could always be worse.

But Churchill was likely thinking of his own country's parliamentary democracy, not the clunkier American system, in which a single ...

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