What is Democracy? 1.government by the people; a form of government in which thesupreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly bythem or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. 2.a state having such a form of government. 3.a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights andprivileges. 4.political or social equality; democratic spirit. 5.the common people of a community as distinguished from anyprivileged class; the common people with respect to theirpolitical power
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Who doesn’t love some fresh air? Who doesn’t love new ways of thinking and less corruption? The answer is: no one. Yet in our current republican democracy in the United States there are term limits for the president‚ but not for congressmen. Members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms and are considered for reelection every even year. Senators‚ however‚ serve six-year terms and elections to the Senate are staggered over even years so that 1/3 of the Senate is up for reelection during
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confederacy of the Athenians‚ or the elite Spartan military. The combat supremacy of Athens and Sparta was not the only factor. Athens was a mighty empire and wished to expand its control. The Spartans feared Athenian power‚ and they entered hostilities with Athens under the pretext of freeing the Panhellenic people. In a display of strength‚ Athens decided to take Melos. Melos was a mostly neutral city-state‚ but the Athenians believed
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How and why did the values of Athenians differ from that of the Spartans? Ancient Greece provided the rudiments of Western civilisation; it has had a colossal influence on language‚ politics‚ educational systems‚ philosophy‚ science‚ and arts. In the following several pages I hope to demonstrate explicitly‚ the bold differences between the two provinces‚ and to suggest the relativity‚ of Ancient Greece conventions‚ to modern times. In doing this I will bring upon wars‚ economic stances‚ and most
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Democracy is said to be one of the best forms of government. People choose democracy mainly to remove corruption‚ hunger and poverty. Poverty is regarded as one of the worst affecting social evils. Population‚ Corruption‚ Economy and Illiteracy are the main factors which directly or indirectly lead to poverty. Population is one of the major factors which lead to poverty. The excessive population increases poverty. The increasing population decreases the per-capita income of families. For example
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in the 5th century BC is often cited by modern historians as a ‘radical’ shift from conservative democracy to a liberal‚ direct democracy involving all citizens. The oligarchical institution known as the Areopagus‚ comprised of ex-archons from the two aristocratic classes‚ was the largest obstacle in the way of full democracy for the Athenian radicals. The beginning of the emplacement of direct democracy can be seen to start with the prosecution of Cimon‚ the largest supporter of the Areopagus‚ by
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Democracy: The Best of the Worst Democracy is without a doubt a fairly successful system of governance. Although dozens of systems have been tried over the ages‚ the world has been continuously edging towards increasingly democratic models‚ at least in baby steps when not in great leaps and bounds. And yet Winston Churchill - both the product and professional beneficiary of a modestly democratic system - suggested that he considered it to be paradoxically "the worst form of government except all
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"We Romans"‚ said Cicero‚ "owe our supremacy overall other peoples to our piety and religious observances and to our wisdom in believing that the spirit of the gods rules and directs everything." Roman rites and observances took two main forms. One was the domestic reverence of the spirit or genius of the family. The other was the public attitude to the gods and goddesses by whom the destiny and welfare of the Roman people as a whole were supposed to be guided and controlled. During the Classical
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women‚ such as Roman and barbarian women‚ used beauty products or the certain beauty rituals they had showed evidence as to how women were integrated into their prospective societies. The idea of beauty also varied from culture to culture. Romans felt that women should do everything in their power to look as close to perfect as they could. A barbarian woman on the other hand‚ did not have much emphasis on her outward appearance but instead focused on her contribution to her tribe. Roman authors such
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Although the people of Athens clearly knew and recognized that they lived in a democracy‚ Pericles goes out of his way to remind them of this as a means of praising and extolling the uniqueness of Athens and its system of government. It also supports the argument that Athens has a way of life that is superior to other poli within Greece‚ and its people must therefore fight for it and the values it upholds as a democracy. In fact‚ one way of looking at Pericles’ ancestor reference in the previous section
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