The improved political devices run down the argument that small States are best united for democracy. The representative system. growing familiar to Europe from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and now taking roots is Asia and Africa,has vastly extended the scope of democratic institutions Federalism has also proved its value. Federalism has reconciled ioca autonomy with national unity,diversity with uniformity and it has enable local communities to retain much of their individual character and yet they co-operate for certain purposes in a single State