What is true democracy?

Question

Do u agree with following;
True democracy may have different meaning to different ppl. To me, true democracy does not necessarily mean rule by a political majority. True democracy should in fact imply a really principled political system. These principles should be agreeable by cent percent (entire segment) of sound minded population. Present day politics has probably mistaken true democracy for majority gathered on petty issues of selfish interests. And judiciary, its members should have knowledge of almost each aspect of everything especially of human behavior as reading of big volumes of law books sometimes fail to come out with worthwhile solutions in certain conditions. If I am not wrong than a good judge might be taking into account thousands of relevant/irrelevant rules before taking a judgment and avoid hasty decisions on the basis of misinterpretations of segregated singular rules. True democracy implies a lot and can not be explained by any particular single doctrine.

Answer 1

True democracy is where people will chose who will contest the election. No indirect representation. All the powers must be with people.

Answer 2

This is clearly a quote, and probably by a judge. You should have said who.

To me "true democracy" is an attempt to say "democracy," recognizing that the word has been misused so much that the term "true" needs to be added. Still, democracy is in fact tyranny of the majority. In a "true democracy" everyone would vote on everything, and all the people would have to go along with the result of the vote. So there would be uniformity, enforced uniformity, and it would be horrible.

The US is a republic, not a democracy. We vote on representatives to do the dirty work of making laws. (Laws and sausages; two things it's better not to watch being made.)

A great many things are brought up for a vote that ought to be the private decision of each individual. Too many things are legislated about that are not the business of government. Liberty is what we need, not real democracy.

Answer 3

We have a Republic but use the term democracy is used because it sounds good. That is why the majority rules. There has never been, nor will there ever be a true democracy, to many different ideas, but rest assured we are still the most attractive country in the world to those who don't live in Republics.

By the way, the term sound minded has yet to be defined, even my the courts, that is why ballots are written in 142 different languages in the United States.

Answer 4

True democracy has always meant rule by a majority of the populace, while maintaining the rights of the minority. This can be by direct methods (Athenian democracy, one person, one vote) or representative means (parliments and congresses).
Each voter will pursue his own interests.
True, American democracy has been overrun with gerrymandering (the rate that incumbents get re-elected is around 97%) and special interest campaign funding (another term is "legalized bribery"), but the focus should be on changing the laws and representatives, not morals.

Answer 5

Yep, I agree with much of it... I would like to think of democracy as the rule by the PEOPLE rather than rule by a majority !
Terminologically, I would like to replace "principled political system" with the term "democratic culture" or "Legal culture"
Regarding Judiciary, I would like the Judges to stick to the laws and to uniformly apply them. If we wish them to be more effective we must give them more effective laws (It is the job of the legislature)

Answer 6

True Democracy is a government "off" the people, "far" the people and "buy" the people; instead of earlier of the people, for the people and by the people.

Answer 7

It used to be people elected by the people for the people, however, political parties hijacked this and we now have our representatives not representing us but party politics.