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The English have not moved towards democracy with any desire for that particular form of government, and no vision of a perfect state has sustained them on the . Our boast has been that we are a “practical” people, and so our politics are, as they ever have been, experimental. Reforms have been not out of deference to some moral or political principle, but because the abuse had become . Dissatisfaction with the Government and the conviction that only by and by free election of representatives can Parliament remove the grounds of dissatisfaction, have carried us towards democracy. The conclusion is that a democratic revolution was accomplished in England by a rising of the people, not by revolutionaries but by the strong of constitutional government.
Answer: (1) B. conscious (2) A. march (3) D. accomplished (4) C. intolerable (5) B. enfranchisement (6) D. champions
Solution The text conveys that the move towards democracy in England resulted not from some design or some deference to principles, but from dissatisfaction among people about governance and a feeling among them that only power vested in the people offered a solution. There was no conscious (1) desire that sustained the 'march' (2) of the movement for democracy. Reforms were accomplished' (3) when abuse of government became intolerable' (4) and popular 'enfranchisement (5) was deemed by champions' (6) of democracy to be the only way out.