Democracy is the fastest growing type of government in the world. More and more countries are revolting against their dictators and parliaments and evolving into Democracies. Democracy means the people are sovereign, government by the people. Representative institutions, therefore, derive their authority from the people and are responsible to the people. According to democratic theory, elections, political parties, and representative legislatures are means of implementing popular sovereignty. Most Americans are not only liberals, in the classical sense of believing in individual liberty, but are also democrats since they believe in equality, majority rule, with recognition of the rights of minorities, and government that is responsive and responsible to a broad electorate. Democracy also includes freedom of speech, press, and assembly; freedom to form opposition political parties and to run for office; commitment to individual dignity and to equal opportunities for people to develop their full potential. Some communist countries tend to call themselves democratic, and the mere fact that a government is elected by a majority of the popular vote does not of itself guarantee a democracy.
2006-10-26 07:28:40
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answered by Anonymous
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Democracy is fraternity, sorority and equality. World tried lot of other forms of governing masses, like Fuedelism, Fascism, Monarchy even proletarian type of administration through Communism. All failed and we are into democracy where brotherhood, sisterhood and equlity is the driving charecteristics, which is the only solution to mans efforts to put himself in the forfront of everything. America is probably the only country and some developed nations where it is practiced legitimately truely. Others do have shadow governments in the form of democracy.
2006-10-26 11:52:44
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answered by Mathew C 5
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Democracy has been continuosly advancing from the day of its invention and is spreading gradually otward from its tiny beginning to the present day where it has spread across every continent and substantial portion of the humanity.Democracy is the best possible form of Government. In Democracy each and every individual is equally qualified to rule or govern themselves democratically. Democracy currently dominates the real world.
2006-10-26 14:18:39
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answered by smiley 2
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i can give you only the start point and end words .
Start point :-
"demos" means people, "cratia" means people.So democracy means people's rule according to Aristotle.
end point:-
but in tody's life it is nothing but an autorised license to behave as you like and this authority is protected by none other than Supreme Court!
2006-10-29 07:16:30
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answered by shreya i 2
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DEMOCRACY IS A SYSTEM WHERE POLITICIANS LIVE WITH FULL FREEDOM AND PEOPLE ALSO LIVE WITH FULL FREEDOM WITHOUT ENTERING INTO ONE ANOTHER'S TERRITERY OF FREEDOM
2006-10-30 04:30:18
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answered by nadkarni_chaitanya 3
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