No one can truly represent anyone else

"Although anarchists feel that representative democracy is preferable to monarchy, aristocracy or despotism, they still consider it to be essentially oppressive. They rebut the twin pillars of the democratic theory of the State - representation and majority rule. In the first place, no one can truly represent anyone else and it is impossible to delegate one's authority. Secondly, the majority has no more right to dictate to the minority, even a minority of one, than the minority to the majority, To decide upon 'truth by the casting up of votes, Godwin wrote, is a 'flagrant insult to all reason and justice'. The idea that the government can control the individual and his property simply because it reflects the will of the majority is therefore plainly unjust."