While the word “democracy” does not appear in the United States Constitution, the document provides the basic elements of representative democracy: an electoral system based on majority rule, separation of powers, and dependence on a rule of law. Also, America’sFounding Fathersused the word of...
Politicians are focused on wining the elections, not in strategic governing and even less in consolidating democracy, even just a liberal one as it became before EU accession. The most popular enemy during the electoral campaign is corruption and because its form is "state capture", the fight ...
The vice president's role in what usually is a ministerial proceeding -- simply counting and announcing the votes -- is extremely unclear. The Constitution dictates that the president of the Senate, or the vice president, open the certificates of electoral votes from each state. Additionally, un...
Urbinati (2006b, 25, 27). Both Turner (2003) in his discussion of liberal democracy and Urbinati (2006a) in her discussion of representational democracy share the idea that both forms of democracy depend on vibrant discussion, beyond electoral competition, in order for the conditions of legitima...
the Constitutional Convention been held two generations later, the framers of the U.S. Constitution, having been able to read the new constitution of Britain, might have decided that the British system with an expanded electoral system might allow America to meet its full potential for democracy...
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. - Fidel Castro 4.3 Famous Leaders Many famous leaders 4.4 Modern 4.4.1 Early Modern 16th Century: Revolutions gave rise to electoral systems in europen countries like England, France and...
s unrealistic to let the common people rule. There should be some kind of “institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people’...
Political parties appear in a state wherever political life is free. Parties only fail to appear in a country where indifference to public affairs prevails, or where the ruler forcefully suppresses every free demonstration of opinions by groups in the population. In the first instance, the capacity...
How is a direct democracy like a republic? How does a direct democracy work? Who makes the decisions in a democracy? In what ways is the electoral system in the United States not democratic? How is a representative democracy similar to a constitutional monarchy? Why is limited government impor...
The title of oldest continuously functioning democracy is more hotly contested. Iceland, the Faroe Islands and the Isle of Man all have local parliaments founded in the ninth and 10th centuries, when Vikings pillaged, plundered and set up legislative bodies on the sea-islands of far northern Eur...