Well he thinks the only way that modern will accept the rule of one person rather than another is if they think they're somehow there as a result of  their own action, so we'll only accept the rule of erm  our leaders if we think we put them there and we take them back again, we put them there and can recall them and this for Barry is the only merit that contemporary democratic  policy  democratic erm systems that it allows us to think of our rulers as having some legitimate claim to rule.