Saturday, May 17, 2008

The Definition of Democracy

Firstly, we must define - what is democracy?
Democracy is 'a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections'. In other words, it is a system where citizens control their own affairs, and are given the power to do so. They either do this directly, by voting to pass bills and laws, or indirectly, voting for people to represent them who will make it their jobs to pass such bills and laws.

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