what are the values of democracy?
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you get what you vote for maybe!!! one vote for each person registered means the majority wishes are represented by congress and senators if they  only did what we wanted it would be great but once elected they lie cheat and steal .nothing you can do except elect really poor stupid people who have more sense then the currnt idiots running things . you should be from the projects and have been arrested at least once to run for office that would scare the shit out them !!!!!!!!!!!!major companies would flee to other nations even start there own like maybe the cayman islands or something.
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Democracy is a form of government where the population of a society controls the government.\n\nWiki has pages of infromation.
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Not one world government, one style of government... Democracy.
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"consent"\n\ngenerally, "democracy"
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It is a type of goverment where the people are represented. Democracy is just one type, and I can't say that the kind in England and Canada don't do the same thing. Many times in Indian villages, the chief would listen to his people and act upon what they thought. This is another type of representitive goverment.
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In the future...\n\nthe strong will define what democracy is.
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A few of the many. . . . . . \n\nA democracy is a state in which the poor gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally by lot. – Plato, from The Republic, VIII, 370 BCE.\n\nDemocracy arose from men thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal in all respects. – Aristotle, from Politics, V, 322 BCE.\n\nA democracy, when put to the strain, grows weak, and is supplanted by oligarchy. – Aristotle, from Rhetoric, 322 BCE.\n\nDemocracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants. – Seneca, from Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, 63 CE.\n\nA democracy in effect is no more than an aristocracy of orators, interrupted sometimes with the temporary monarchy of one orator. – Thomas Hobbes, from De corpore politico, II, 1650 CE.\n\nThe evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy.  The people do no want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots. – Elbridge Gerry, - Speech in the Constitutional convention, 1787 CE.\n\nA perfect democracy is the most shameless thing in the world. – Edmund Burke, from Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790 CE.\n\nDemocracy is Lovelace and the people is Clarissa. – John Adams, Letter to William Cunningham, March 1804 CE.\n\nThe tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. – James Fenimore Cooper, from The American Democrat, XIV, 1838 CE.\n\nDemocracy is morose, and runs to anarchy. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nominalist and Realist, 1841 CE.\n\nInstitutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization or both. – T. B. Macaulay, from Letter to H. S. Randall, 23 May 1857 CE.
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Democracy is direct rule by a population through an elected leader.  Monarchy is a system in which the king could potentially not do what the public wants.
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Good point :)\n\nOf course, by "democracy" we usually mean "freedom to vote for the leaders we like". And oh look, Condi Rice cut off aid to the Palestinian government.
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Like stated before, US is a flavor of democracy but ...\nthere are many aspects which aren't consistent with democratic principles. \nOne would be the lack of transparency and games of interests. Guess you've noticed how many decisions taken by the elected administration have been done behind the back of the people they are supposed to represent and protect. Creating an atmosphere of insecurity, furthering own interests, limitations of civil liberties, etc ... these are signs of a totalitarian system, not democracy. Maybe some infrigements on liberties are necessary in the current sstuation but that doesn't mean they are acceptable in a system that wants to appear democratic.\nAlso the relativity of freedom. A very small part of the media is actually free because those members of the media that aren't subjects in a race for profits serve the politicians. The result is that media doesn't want to inform the people, it wants to give them what sells best. This way the people aren't free because they won't be fully in touch with what happens around, they aren't fully controlled either, just in a state of half-thruts and sometimes deceit. Biased info, govt cover-up attempts (like the failures in Iraq, secret prisons, etc), these aren't part of democracy.
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Patriotism!\n\nYou obviously need to be taken away for questioning.\n\n(Do you see anything at all ironic in appellations like "democratically elected Life President"?\nWho did you prefer: Haile Selassie, Idi Amin, Mobutu, Hastings Banda or Jean-Marie Bokassa?)\n\nThe serious answer is that to build a democracy requires an independent government, judiciary, police and army. This stuff only happens as a result of a long-instilled culture of democracy. Which takes centuries to nurture. Army coups, corruption, radical nationalists, racial discrimination etc. are always ready to step into the void. It also must be said that the rest of the world is eternally poking in affairs in the developing world, and due to the wealth discrepancy it only takes a little bit of interference to disrupt a lot.
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Democratic statement.
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What may be (?) good for the US is by far not necessarily good for other countries. Before installing democracy in a country, that country must be qualified for democracy!\nAs we can see in many countries of the so-called third world, democracy american style there simply does not work. As a matter of fact, because of such democracy forced onto them, among others by the US, many of these countries ended up in plain chaos and anarchy!\nThe system of a country can work to the better of its people only, if this system developed from within and most always will fail, if it is forced onto a nation from outside (like from the US).\nLet the Americans live with their type of regime and give other countries a chance of their own! Eventually a nation may end up with a democracy even better than the one of the US, which is restricted to that check-mark on your poll-sheet!
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Democracy is the best we've had so far.  I would like to see more direct democracy in the future.\n\nThe converse of democracy is a dictatorship.  There are many advantages to a dictatorship as well.  Countries with dictatorships essentially take a greater gamble.  A democracy will never vote in the best leader for a country, because the average IQ and political knowledge of a country is not great enough to make this decision.  A dictatorship with a perfect leader would enjoy a strong government for the leader's lifetime.\n\nThe problem with a dictatorship is that when a bad leader is in place, or when power gets the better of them, the country is stuck with them.\n\nKeep in mind that the most deadly dictator of our time, Hitler, was born out of a German democracy.  Now, Hitler never won more than 37% of the vote.  Somehow, the majority government fell and handed the power to him by default.  \n\nAll I can say is that we still have a lot to learn about what makes a great government system.\n\n\np.s...I agree with the comments about communism, but must mention that this is a separate issue from democracy.  A Democratic Communist state could theoretically exist, and it may just happen in the future.  Keep in mind that it may be much ado about nothing.  We call ourselves a Capitalist state, but are far from the true meaning of Capitalist.  All in all, we are a mild socialist state.   Likewise, a future Democracic Communist state would likely not be a true communist state, but simply a stronger form of socialist state.\n\nIe.,,,the possible futures of China or Russia.
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Democracy as you may know is the government of the people. so Democratic institutions are the ones that contribute to democracy. An institution is an established law, principle or usage. \nSo there are many democratic institutions within a democratic state. For instance a democratic institution is the right to vote, or the congress, the balance of powers (i mean division with checks and balances), media, freedom, etc....or this web site also it is a democratic usage to say what you think and allow the others too, tolerance is an institution of democracy.
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no one is happy with democracy. everyone fear.\n\nMany forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
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Well, I don't think there would be a democracy.....without good education there are no good jobs and without good jobs there is no economy...without the economy.....\n\nwell you know