Democracy

Strengths: they defeated the Persian army and navy. They lived with great self confidence. They had no lawyers in court; parties in a case argued their own side.

Weaknesses: they practiced slavery. Greek men were often immoral and resorted to prostitutes, and developed homosexual relationships.

No real similarity. A democracy is represented by the people through the use of votes. A theocracy is run by the church leaders who tell the people what to do.

White men who owned land and were over 21 could vote. Congress picked the president and they felt the general population were not informed enough to vote.

From the free choice of people.

This is a very typical American misconception. Since federalism is a key component of the US political machinery, many Americans mistakenly believe that a federal system is requisite or strongly desirable when creating a democracy. Confederacies, nation-states, and other non-federal forms of governance work just as well as a federal system in sustaining a democracy.

Democracy is when all the members have equal rights in a society. In today's world, democracy is embodied in the right to vote. Primitive democracy was found even in villages and communities by discussions through village council, village elders, cooperative forms of government, etc.

These three amendments helped to expand democracy by eliminating a lot of the black peoples restrictions such as voting. So more people were able to vote and participate in the democratic voting.

a representative democracy is where there is a leader to look after the country. some countries that are with representative democracy's are The phillippienes, Australia, ISA, UK, Canada and Germany.

There are no governments on earth that are pure democracies. In such a government every single person would share authority and responsibility for government, and everyone would vote on everything. It is easy to see that government would come to a standstill in any nation of more than a few dozen people. Nations that have a democratic element are those where the people have a substantial say, through a system of voting, who is representing them in the government, and where leaders are not governing for life, or because they are strong enough not to be removed from office. There are many nations that have a multi-tiered level of representation, and this is a broadly appealing and usually effective kind of government. The UK, for example, have the general voting population and the House of Commons. There is the House of Lords, and then the reigning monarch. The US Congress along with the president can be seen as roughly analogous.
In a democracy representatives that govern the people are voted in by the people through free and fair elections with multiple parties. A dictatorship has one authoritarian leader who was probably not elected and probably does not rule in the best interest of the people.

Direct Democracy: People represent themselves.

Indirect Democracy: People elect representatives to represent them.

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Democracies remain successful provided the government does nothing more than protect each individual's right to life, liberty, and private property. As soon as a government promotes the violation of the rights of some in favor of others, conflict arises. Soon the government is reduced to a tool of enrichment for whichever faction takes control irrespective of its purpose. Essentially, there are 3 options: no one violates anyone's rights, the few violate the rights of the many, and everyone violates the rights of everyone else. Only in the first case is democracy sustainable.

The people select Members of Parliament by voting at a General Election.The Prime Minister is always the Leader of the political party with a majority in Parliament. The head of state is a monarch, so they get their position by birth right and are not selected.

Israel, Cyprus, and Turkey are the only Middle Eastern countries that are truly multiparty democracies. Iraq and Iran have multiparty elections, but power is more strongly concentrated in certain parties that can curry non-democratic favor than purely through elected strength.

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It's never been fully democratic. A pure democracy form of government is where every citizen that meets the requirements set forth by the government votes on every topic/bill/issue/etc. The United States follows the representative form of democracy.

I don't think you will find many, IF ANY, pure democracies today (were there every any?). You will find it in practice in different levels of government on a small scale, but that's about it. California has a system of dir. dem. in place, but it has many short comings.

as the media has the potential or right to keep watch on the current happenings or the afeirs in any trades of democracy, like politics, education, carporate etc. it can serve a role like watchdogs of democracy.

In democracy, people are not equal, but their rights are, which is completely different. People's rights must be equal in democracy since the people itself elected their government, and so everyone has the same right to vote, to have rights and also obligations against his fellow citizen.

This is where two or more political parties form a temporary alliance in order to form a government. This is generally done when neither party has enough elected members to form a majority government on their own.

democracy fails in third world nations due to the poor conditions that they live in, unlike the western counterparts who first built up a strong country and industry before becoming a democratic country the 3rd world nations are doing it in the reverse and this shows how cruel and corrupt man can be, that is why democracy doesn't work as man is too corrupt

ACCOUNTABLE -

Democracy produces a government which is accountable to all people

it is the basic outcome of democracy.

it will produce a government which responds to people

LEGITIMATE -

In democracy elections are conducted through which people select their representatives.

If they do not react for their demands they choose another representative in the next elections

RESPONSIVE-

Democracy produces a government which responds to all the demands and needs of different people.

This is how the democracy protects the dignity and freedom of citizens.

An oligarchy is rule and governance by the rich and powerful, usually the business class but sometimes the elite who inherited money, land, mineral rights and/or livestock, etc. A theocracy is rule by spiritual leaders. Both rely on the masses embracing supportive belief systems.

Rebellion always occurs if rule isn't just. Neither belief system lasts or works well. [See Discussion on this line]

It was not - it was direct democracy where the citizens met in fortnightly assembly and decided on issues which the council implemented. Modern democracy is representative democracy, where elected representatives carry out the functions of governance.

No, the US is not the only true democracy. There are a great many nations in the world that have truly democratic governments. Canada, the immediate neighbor of the US to the north, is easily as democratic as the US.