Do you know the roots of democracy?

Question

Let me get your answers first. And if you are not sure, then have a look at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3407.htm, under History. Have a nice day.

Answer 1

Is a form of government for a nation state, or for an organization in which all the citizens have a voice in shaping policy.

Aristotle contrasted rule by the many with rule by the few and with rule by a single person .He also thought that there was a good and a bad variant of each system

Sortition/Allotment have formed the basis of systems randomly selecting officers from the population.For example, Aristotle described the law courts in Athens which were selected by lot as democratic and described elections as oligarchic

Direct democracy is a political system where the citizens vote on all major policy decisions.

Representative democracy is so named because the people select representatives to a governing body. Representatives may be chosen by the electorate as a whole , with some systems using a combination of the two. Some representative democracies also incorporate some elements of direct democracy, such as referenda.

Liberal democracy is a representative democracy (with free and fair elections) along with the protection of minorities, the rule of law, a separation of powers, and protection of liberties (thus the name liberal) of speech, assembly, religion, and property

During the Middle Ages, there were various systems involving elections or assemblies, such as the election of Gopala in Bengal, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Althing in Iceland, certain medieval Italian city-states such as Venice, the tuatha system in early medieval Ireland, the Veche in Slavic countries,


The Parliament of England had its roots in the restrictions on the power of kings written into Magna Carta. The first elected parliament was De Montfort's Parliament in England in 1265.

Answer 2

Several countries contributed in different ways to the democracy we have today.

Greece, Rome England, France and Germany.


Greece was the first to practice primitive form of democracy by having assemblies where the public voted, but it was a very primitive form and not always fair because certain people who didn't own land or hadn't served in the military were not allowed to vote even though they were Greeks.

Rome was the first democracy that had an established Senate. They had elected officials who acted on behalf of the people. This is the first time democracy resembled something similar to what we have today.

Then came England. They were the first to issue some type of basic human right, which inspired the early Americans to craft a democracy where all people are essentially equal.

The French also contributed when they had the French Revolution and got rid of their king. They also drafted a famous paper that talked about the God given right of all humans etc.

Then comes Germany. They were the first to allow women to vote.

So different countries did different things and basically influenced each other.

Answer 3

Your links not working. Here's the working one:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3407.htm

Impressive history Slovenia has. They faced may hardships, but still ended up strong.

Answer 4

Yes, the roots of democracy lie in Ancient Greece, which is where it was first practiced as a direct democratic form of government. It was pretty much the one man, one vote form of democracy, but the definition of "one man" was somewhat limited by today's standards.

What else do you need to know?

Answer 5

I believe the roots of modern democracy (not the Democracy of the ancient Greeks, of course!) lay in The Enlightenment...

Answer 6

Yes, the word comes from Greek, demos kratein which means people to rule. However, the ancient Greeks did not include their slaves in democracy

Answer 7

The roots of democracy are the people :)