Thursday 16 September 2010

Democracy

Democracy is a form of  goverment where governing power comes from the people. Colloquially we can say that power comes from the people which couldnt be more wrong. The term comes from the ancient greek: demos(people) and kratos(power). Depending of how the authorities are being chosen we distinguish DIRECT democracy when all authorized members of the society are allowed to vote.Due to impossibility to achieve that in modern , usually big societes we use referendums instead.Second form is representative democracy where people are represented by elected representatives.According to many one of the worst political systems...

1 comment:

  1. How is it wrong to say power comes from the people? They can elect replacement MPs....

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