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4 ημέρες πριν · democracy, literally, rule by the people. The term is derived from the Greek dēmokratia, which was coined from dēmos (“people”) and kratos (“rule”) in the middle of the 5th century bce to denote the political systems then existing in some Greek city-states, notably Athens.
1 Αυγ 2024 · Democracy, literally meaning “rule by the people,” empowers individuals to exercise political control over the form and functions of their government. While democracies come in several forms, they all feature competitive elections, freedom of expression, and protection of individual civil liberties and human rights.
10 Σεπ 2022 · What do we call the system of government in the U.S.? Are we a democracy or a republic? The conundrum is, well, as the common expression goes, "as old as the republic itself." But it's not just...
30 Ιουν 2023 · How has the meaning of democracy in America evolved since July 4, 1776? The American Republic was crafted with an inherent and intractable tension. For most of our history, “we the people” have believed in the democratic principles, i.e., that government is based on the consent of the governed, but we have rarely agreed on what that means.
The dawn of American democracy didn’t come in 1776, with the Declaration of Independence. It didn’t come in 1788, when the Constitution was ratified by the states, or in 1789, when George ...
democracy, Form of government in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic free elections. In a direct democracy, the public participates in government directly (as in some ancient Greek city-state s, some New England town meetings, and ...
4 ημέρες πριν · Is democracy the most appropriate name for a large-scale representative system such as that of the early United States? At the end of the 18th century, the history of the terms whose literal meaning is “rule by the people”— democracy and republic —left the answer unclear.
