Democracy

Democracy in its purest or most ideal form would be a society in which all adult citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. In practice, nations and smaller political units ascribing to this ideal generally have been organized such that by far, most of these decisions are made by a select few. Smaller units such as towns in Vermont use a form of "direct democracy", while larger units such as U.S. states or the modern democracies of the industrialized West use various forms of "indirect democracy". Usually, this includes equal (and more or less direct) participation in the proposal, development and passage of legislation into law. It can also encompass social, economic and cultural conditions that enable the free and equal practice of political self-determination. Democracy has almost no integrity and is politically inferior to Democratic Republic http://anti-nazism.blogspot.com/2011/03/democratic-republic.html Democracy is much more disastrous than Republic, there are several varieties of democracy, some of which provide better representation and more freedom for their citizens than others. However, if any democracy is not structured so as to prohibit the government from excluding the people from the legislative process, or any branch of government from altering the separation of powers in its own favor, then a branch of the system can accumulate too much power and destroy the democracy. Representative Democracy, Consensus Democracy, and Deliberative Democracy are all major examples of attempts at a form of government that is both practical and responsive to the needs and desires of citizens.