This is what happened to Loyalist who fled to Canada after the revolution. In fact, the White House is built on land that was confiscated from a loyalist. .

             To further his point Monroe asks the question, "How did American's negotiate their dread of power as they constructed their administrative institutions?" He answers this question by use of the "myth of communal democracy". Reformers - oppressed groups, public officials, policy entrepreneurs - have repeatedly overcome the checks and balances of a polity biased against the expansion of government by promising to restore power to the people. "The people" covers a multitude of factions. This helps explain why the democratic wish introduces change more easily than do movement based explicitly on the redistribution of wealth or power. In other words, new state powers are secured and new groups are legitimated through the mobilization of the people.

             Is there a considerable mobilization of the people? According to Fred Nelson, a political science graduate student at Western Illinois University, there is a considerable impact on our current politics by many interests groups. He believes that many interest groups fail to take part in democracy because they feel that they are rarely represented in government. The following is taken from my interview with him:.

             "Because only one person can win in an election, there is a natural homogenizing affect, so that candidates and political parties tend to have views that represent only the largest number of people. .

             These views tend to be conservative and status quo. These homogenizing process results from the fact that most people are afraid of "throwing away" their one vote on a candidate that might not win. Thus they choose the lesser of two evils (there are usually only two given that a majority of the vote is 51%) that sort-of resembles what they stand for. Because voters are afraid of voting for candidates that might not win, their choice in candidates is limited.