social contract between the people and their rulers, James Cairns and Alan Sears explain democracy as disrupting everyday reality and developing new practices of popular power, and lastly Ranciere, Ranciere describes democracy as, “the reality of the power of the people that can never coincide with the form of a State.” These four political theorists all agree, democracy would not exist without the people. Through Aristotle, Rousseau, James Cairns and Alan Sears, and Ranciere I will explain what democracy