Modern democratic theory pays considerable attention to local government and self-government treated as important forms of implementing democracy on the whole.
Developed local self-government is not only a matter of understanding for the local
population problems, but it also represents participation of the population in electing local
authorities and their representatives in the authorities of wider communities partially
being a guarantee that power within the wider community will be limited and under
greater supervision of those ruled. Also, there were grounds for expectations as well as
cases in practice that possible hasty and arbitrary decisions of the central and from the
people far-off power in facing realistic conditions in the local communities were mitigated
and reduced to those reasonable and bearable to the people. As it used to happen more
frequently that the local governments and population, sometimes unsuccessfully and
sometimes successfully, resisted violence, subjugation and certain burdens, laws and
criteria imposed by the central governments. Over certain periods, the king's central
power, for example, could not easily prevent election to the parliament of some
individuals representing severe and for the power intolerable critics, because the local
communities would frequently re-elect them (in England, it repeated several times under
Cromwell and George III). Also, the American revolution was, in fact, a rebellion of the
"local" governments in the North America against the unreasonable and for the colonial
population very harmful decisions of the King and Parliament in London. The local
government and self-government had also a great role in that revolution, its beginning and
character