Democracy

Some examples of Advanced Industrialized Democracies include: the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Israel.

The three branches of government namely the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary Arms of State should certainly remain standing independently. The merging of any of the stated would assure their supremacy, a fact that would encroach on the freedoms of the citizenry of Trinidad and Tobago.

The reason that those branches are separated is to safeguard individual liberties against the tyranny of the majority and the manner in which it was designed further promotes liberal democracy within the country.

If any of the named branches were to work co-dependently, it may open the doors for policies and laws to be changed at the whims and fancies of the government of the day. Bureaucracies and Courts may further experience rampant political interference due to the blurring of lines caused by the activities of "working together".

Each member of each branch of government serves a particular function and each position is delegated a specific purpose. The duties of persons under the umbrella of each arm should remain as is. Theoretically speaking, the separation of these powers is the foundation of the country's entire political system and changing such a compounded function would mean implementing a change on a revolutionary scale.

Short of a revolution, the twin island state continually promotes the ideals of diplomatic democracy. Ideally, its systems works best when worked alone. Whether or not theoretical notions match with it's real life implications is a matter for another debate.

yes

• freedom ,liberty ,and choice

The will of the majority will not represent itself well. In a democracy (not an elected republic) the majority will more than likely be effectively lied to, intimidated, abstain or defer to a will that is not theirs. If 1,000 people are free to democratically express their will with, say, small clay disks, then that is a vote. Take for example the vote of Spartans, in the first large democracy, deciding whether to dispatch gifts to Dalmatia. Most citizens are of the opinion "No, don't send anything" while a minority wish to "Send something." The implications and details involved in the decision are huge, but most Spartans would not even think of them. (Sparta was militaristic, isolationist, and rustic to a fault.) Just as one oligarchy or individual cannot know what is best, the majority of a large group cannot decide by vote what is best either. The prime example is criminal behavior. With so many laws most citizens agree to, there will always be a small minority who disagree strongly enough to act them out. The larger minorities may not break laws, but become disenfranchised to the point that they lose respect for other individuals in the democracy. This lack of respect can lead to everything from an angry letter, petitions, protest, or rarely in democracies -civil war. Majority rule makes the minority the ruled in a lawful society. So the will of the majority may or should not make laws too harsh. The will of the majority should not take away the minority's right to debate and vote. The will of the majority should not decide to details: if a gift were decided on it would require some citizens to remain quiet or else debate for hours over how something will be given. The majority should also not elect unrepresentative Representatives, in a real democracy. Here are two Youtubes on modern manipulation of the majority's will: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24vvozhcsJY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnYZVNVqBgU

The Foreign Policy Agenda focuses on fostering a more democratic and prosperous world. The United States would benefit in the domestic and international market.

Democracy is government of the people by the people and for the people. It is the principle of political equality on recognising that to the poorest to the richest has the same status, people are not the subjects to the ruler they are the rulers themselves

A Democracy in which the people get to vote on a representative for them.

When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk overthrew the Ottoman Government in a military coup d'état, he established the Turkish Republic and created a parliament.

No, Honduras is a Republic.

it is important because it lets you pick your leader and everyone else has to abide by that leaders rules

Sovereignty is the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a territory. It can be found in a power to rule and make law that rests on a political fact for which no purely legal explanation can be provided. The concept has been discussed, debated and questioned throughout history, from the time of the Romans through to the present day, although it has changed in its definition, concept, and application throughout, especially during the Age of Enlightenment. The current notion of state sovereignty was laid down in the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), which, in relation to states, codified the basic principles of territorial integrity, border inviolability, and supremacy of the state (rather than the Church). A sovereignty is a supreme lawmaking authority.

yes

Winston Churchill

active participation, favorable economy, widespread education, civil society, and social consensus.

It was direct democracy - the citizens met in fortnightly assembly and decided on issues, which decisions were implemented by the council. Today's democracies are representative democracies - citizens elect members of parliament to direct government.

Billy Bob Joe

Between the choices as given in the comments, the FALSE statement is D: Early representative parliaments included representatives from different classes of society. Early Parliaments were primarily made of wealthy individuals and the poor were often excluded from the possibility of being a parliamentarian.

The United States is an indirect democracy, specifically a Presidential Republic.

The basic features and limitations of Greek democracy included the women, slaves, and poor having no rights in any form. It was a direct democracy and only men who were land owners were allowed to vote.

One policy of Jacksonian democracy was to avoid divisive debates over slavery. Another policy was the support of Manifest Destiny and westward expansion.

Approximately 50-60 countries.

The most basic concepts of democracy are as follows:

1. Necessity of compromise

2. Equality of all persons

3. Majority rule with minority rights

4. Individual Liberty

5. Worth of the individual