DEMOCRACY
- Meaning of the word is literally "rule by the people" and it comes from Greek language
- Democracy is a form of government in which supreme power is vested in the people and they can exercise it both directly and indirectly
- DIRECT DEMOCRACY:
- Pure democracy
- The public participates in government directly, there is no intermediary in the decisions
- INDIRECT DEMOCRACY:
- Democracy thru representatives
- Developed during the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment
- Nearly all modern Western-style democracies function as some type of representative democracy
- The power of the representatives is usually curtailed by the constitution or other measures
DEMOCRACY HAS COME TO IMPLY:
- Universal suffrage
- Competition for office
- Freedom of speech and the press
- The rule of law
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