Democracy :: Politics Democratic Republic

DemocracyI. Meaning of DemocracyII. Summary of Places and DatesIII. Features of DemocracyIV. Types of DemocracyV. earlyish DemocracyA. AthensB. RomeVI. Middle Ages and EnglandVII. The RenaissanceA. United States of AmericaB. FranceVIII. Modern TimesIX. Important PeopleDemos Kratia, or democracy, as it is utilized today, actor the peoplerule. A democracy is a establish of government is run by the people of that countrythrough elections and representation. A democracy is really a form of a republicknown as a democratic republic. A republic is a government where officials,elected by a petty group of people, make the fundamental decisions.Democracy has been around for almost 2500 years since Athens, Greecebecame the first democracy. The Romans also experimented with democracy, howeverit was more a republic, and not a democracy. most 1200 England laid thegroundwork to become a republic. Later, in the 1700s, United States of America,became a democracy.There are many features of dem ocracy. Most of these features are thesame, but individual countries use varations of the main ideas. The main featureof democracy, which determines a true democracy, is free, competitive elections.Sometimes however, women or minorities dont have the right to vote. Some ofthese other features, such as checks on power, help to limit the strength of anyone person or party. Other features like free elections, and majority/ minorityrule, help to make elections fair, since the perceptiveness of many people isgenerally better then the judgment of a few people. Political parties keep onegovernment, or idea of government form holding all power. These features let thepeople to govern themselves without the country being torn apart.There are two true types of democracies, direct democracies, andrepresentative democracies. In a direct democracy all the people meet to discussproblems and creat laws. A direct decision consults all the people for thedecisions.. Since that is unpractical in today s world, a unseasoned form of democracy,the representative democracy has arisen. This form of democracy has electedrepresentatives making most of the day to day decisions, while the main groupsof citizens consulted for only the most important decisions.One of the earliest known democracies was in Athens, a city-state insouthern, ancient Greece. Around 620BC, Athens became the first true democracy.In Athens the ruler firedrake tried to make many reforms in the city state. Dracoorganized laws by putting them in a written code, letting everyone know what thelaws were and how they employ to everyone. He also gave the people the right toa trial. The next ruler Solon, the next Athenian ruler also helped Athens become