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  • More Sensitive Representative Democracy
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    Plato was a philosopher in the time of the distinguished Greek philosophers. He wrote a book entitled The Republic in which he explains some of his philosophy on subjects ranging from education to government. Plato constructed a model by which he proposed all governments evolve. He called it the Five Stages of Government. He suggested that there are five forms of government, which evolve out of one another; Timocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy, Tyranny, and Aristocracy. A Timocracy is a government of...
  • Differences Of Republic And Democracy
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    There is a fundamental difference between a democracy and a republic as it concerned the political entitlement of the citizenry. The citizens of a republic do not participate directly with governmental affairs. The citizens of a republic can however have a say in who does participate. The Roman republic has two prefect systems to prevent dictatorship which didn't work. The Romans called their political system not democracy but republic. Republic is something that belongs to the people. In Rome t...
  • Ideology Behind Democracy From His Speech
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    Pericles' Ideology of Democratic Society. Democracy of today can be traced back to the Funeral Oration speech of Pericles'. We can outline the ideology behind democracy from his speech. Democracy is now the largest form of government to exist in today's society. There are two forms of democracy's that exist: Representational which is used by the United States, and Direct which allows the people to get involved and was used by the Greeks. So its said that Athenian democracy are more democratic th...
  • Different Forms Of Government And The Question
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    A composition of one's own political ideology is a complex task to accomplish. It takes meaningful observation of one's present society, the ideologies of past philosophers, and a fusing of different beliefs to offer a better one. It would model Marx's dialectic of having an old order (thesis) to fuse with the new order (antithesis) to form a combination (synthesis). (Brown) This is my humble synthesis of political theories to my own shaping of society. First, society would be considered to be a...
  • Direct Democracy From Other Forms Of Government
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    Direct Democracy vs. Representative Democracy The term Democracy is derived from two Greek words, demos, meaning people, and, meaning rule. These two words form the word democracy which means rule by the people. Aristotle, and other ancient Greek political philosophers, used the phrase, 'the governors are to be the governed', or as we have come to know it, 'rule and be ruled in turn'. The two major types of democracy are Representative Democracy and Direct Democracy. Clearly the arguments for an...
  • Democracy With A Strong Dictatorship
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    Ricky Ramoutar Critical Lens M.E. Sullivan said, "Democracy is only as successful as the people who make it work", proves itself in the novel Lord of the Flies. I agree with this statement because, if there are to many people opposing one thing there will be war. The boys in this book struggled back and forth trying to establish a stable government. Democracy was forming in the group but, dictatorship was quickly sneaking up behind. Democracy was an essential thing for the boys to survive on the...
  • Churchill's Quote On Democracy
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    Winston Churchill's Quote on Democracy "Many 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 for all the others that have been tried from time to time". - Winston Churchill, 1947. This quote represents the views of Winston Churchill, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, not only on democracy, but on government as a whole...
  • Democracy As Our Form Of Government
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    Democracy Thesis: Is democracy a possible form of government With out it the world would be full of chaos and injustice. Democracy is the form of government that America has today. We are able to vote on whom we want to run our government. We have a say in what goes on in our lives and our future. Imagine not being able to vote for who controls your country. If we did not have a say in how the country is ran that would not be fair. What kind of rules would be set up if the government were a dict...
  • Better Form Of Government
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    "A Republic is a Better Form of Government than a Democracy" I agree that a republic is a better form of government than a democracy. In order to come to this decision I had to research the definitions of each. A republic, according to Webster's Dictionary, is a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law. By the same source, a democracy is a government...

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