The Word Democracy

think of the word democracy you think about a politics. I am not a fan of politics at all but when someone says democracy, I think of a system of government that the population votes in a candidate through elected representatives. The schooling system does a good job noftying children that their vote counts. These are the rights that everyone has to fight about because they are very important. People always fight for the right to vote and their voice to be heard. The word democracy just does not

two democratic countries have ever been to war, if we are talking about ‘war’ in the sense of military action (Griffiths et al., 2008). For example, ‘353 pairs of states engaged in wars between 1816-1991 and none was between two democracies: 155 pairs involved a democracy and a non-democratic country, and 198 involved two non-democratic states fighting each other’ (Griffiths et al., 2008). A reason for why democratic peace theorists stress that democratic states fight with only non-democratic states

With these lines quoted by Mahatma Gandhi we can say that democracy is an inclusive form of government. It includes all the citizens of the nation irrespective of their social status or cultural background. The ruler of a democratic government is not necessarily from a particular class but maybe from any. “The government of the people, for the people and by the people”, this explains how the major role in a democratic government is played by the common man of the nation. No matter how powerful the

city-state which is considered to be the place where democracy was created even though people often dispute whether Athens was a true democracy. Democracy is a cultural idea, justice to all people, people's power, and people having the right to vote, essentially democracy is all about the people. These characteristics make Athens a true democracy. Democracy is a cultural idea change over time. Professor Hansen stated that Demokratia, the Greek word for democracy, means the rule of the male citizens only.

The athenian democracy started to develop after the Persian War. Under Particle’s rule, Athens economy thrived and the government became more democratic. Not all Athens citizen agree about the idea of democracy. There also people who supported democracy, because they think it will help free the citizens from the rule of tyrants and long. To make Athens democracy stronger they have to bring people together. First, Athenian democracy should be about every citizen and how they should take part

In order to properly understand the analysis of Stephen Tierney on the brexit Referendum and how democratic it was, one must first fully understand the concept of democracy. In other words, what is democracy? Is democracy a fallacy? Democracy may be a word familiar to most, but it is a concept still misunderstood and misused in a time when totalitarian regimes and military dictatorships alike have attempted to claim popular support by pinning democratic labels upon themselves. Yet the power of the

around the world seek what they call democracy. Having coped with their oppressive regimes for so much time made them invocate their right to choose a person or a group of people to represent them and to be part of the decisions by those representatives. We can consider many definitions for democracy. Etymologically of course there is only one. It comes from the Greek word “demokratos”, “demos” meaning people, and “kratos” meaning the rule of power, the whole word would be referring to the people who

Plato had an intense aversion towards democracy (as a form of government), and towards individual autonomy (as a way of being). So great was Plato’s dislike for democracy, that he considered a democratically ordered government to be the second-to-worst form of centralized authority, just above a complete tyrannical dictatorship. In fact, he alleged that a democracy would necessarily decay into a tyranny, and that “extreme freedom (individual autonomy) would [ultimately] lead to extreme slavery.”

The Greek word ‘Demos’ is commonly interpreted by modern minds as meaning simply ‘people’, as ‘Kratos’ means ‘rule of’, giving us democracy, the rule of the people. This is a nice easy way to understand a word that is used commonly today but it is also an oversimplification of a word that meant something different to the Ancient Greek’s themselves. Meanings of ‘Demos’ Blackwell (Jan. 2003a) handily gives us our three meanings of Demos as “the local village, the population generally, and the assembly

Athens Democracy is a system where not one person gets to make the decisions for the country, it is the people of the country. The United States of America is a perfect example of Democracy we don’t let one supreme leader rule us we vote as a country. In Greek the word democracy is demokratia they are both very similar and that is how we get most of our words today. Democracy is a great system for a country if you can form it right and have everyone vote not just one type of person. You still need