<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (August 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (August 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> A persistent libertarian and monarchist critique of democracy is the claim that it encourages the elected representatives to change the law without necessity and in particular to pour forth a flood of new laws (as described in Herbert Spencer's The Man Versus The State). This is seen as pernicious in several ways . New laws constrict the scope of what were previously private liberties . Rapidly changing laws make it difficult for a willing non-specialist to remain law - abiding . This may be an invitation for law - enforcement agencies to misuse power . The claimed continual complication of the law may be contrary to a claimed simple and eternal natural law--although there is no consensus on what this natural law is, even among advocates . Supporters of democracy point to the complex bureaucracy and regulations that has occurred in dictatorships, like many of the former communist states . </P> <P> The bureaucracy in liberal democracies is often criticised for a claimed slowness and complexity of their decision - making . The term "red tape" is a synonym of slow bureaucratic functioning that hinders quick results in a liberal democracy . </P>

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