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For questions about democracy, a system of government in many countries involving citizens voting, as opposed to dictatorships and other forms of government where normal people don't have control of what it does.
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As a voter in a democratic country, how can I influence a single issue?
Note the word process here: Democracy is not an assortment of institutions and rules, something static, something that is. … Democracy is a living process that must be permanently recreated and perpetuated by its constituents: Us.
None of this has to do with becoming a leader, or with bribery. …
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Is there a link between democracy and economic prosperity?
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Free citizens and corporations are better at allocating resources. They also generate economic opportunities from new ideas and new directions of economic pursuit and public interest. Gradual a …
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Why doesn't democracy show its strengths in large developing countries like BRICS?
Even the countries with the high democracy index in your list still are governed much worse than the U.S. … Just because a country has elections doesn't mean it is a true democracy in the sense that its inhabitants are self-determined individuals. …
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What would stop a representative democracy becoming a dictatorship?
to put their career in the line to prevent executive overreach; in the end, to defend democracy. … We can see that democracy depends on an "apparatus" which sticks to the procedures. …
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What would stop a representative democracy becoming a dictatorship?
The only obstacle between a government by the people and a dictatorship are the people.
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Can the U.S. technically be called an oligarchy and a democracy?
All modern democracies are representative; it's for purely pragmatic reasons hard to see how a large community could govern itself directly by the people without introducing representative intermediar …
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How do proponents of the "Living Constitution" view respond to the argument that it undermin...
Even the strictest originalist would not contend that the constitution can be taken completely literally in all contemporary cases to which it must be applied.1
The two main obstacles preventing an e …
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