1/ " In a DEMOCRATIC society, majority rule must be coupled with guarantees of individual human rights that, in turn, serve to protect the rights of minorities--whether ethnic, religious, or political, or simply the losers in the debate over a piece of controversial legislation.
2/ "The rights of minorities do not depend upon the goodwill of the majority and cannot be eliminated by majority vote. The rights of minorities are protected because democratic laws and institutions protect the rights of all citizens."
3/ ""When a representative democracy operates in accordance with a constitution that limits the powers of the government and guarantees fundamental rights to all citizens, this form of government is a constitutional democracy. In such a society, the majority rules, and the rights
4/" of minorities are protected by law and through the institutionalization of law."Democracy is more than a set of constitutional rules and procedures that determine how a government functions. In a democracy, government is only one element coexisting in a social fabric of many
5/"and varied institutions, political parties, organizations, and associations. This diversity is called pluralism, and it assumes that the many organized groups and institutions in a democratic society do not depend upon government for their existence, legitimacy, or authority.
6/"Thousands of private organizations operate in a democratic society, some local, some national. Many of them serve a mediating role between individuals and the complex social and governmental institutions of which they are a part, filling roles not given to the government and
7/"offering individuals opportunities to exercise their rights and responsibilities as citizens of a democracy. In a democracy, the powers of the government are, by law, clearly defined and sharply limited. As a result, private organizations are free of government control; on the
8/"contrary, many of them lobby the government and seek to hold it accountable for its actions.
In the dictionary definition, 'DEMOCRACY is government by the people in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under
In the dictionary definition, 'DEMOCRACY is government by the people in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under
9/a free electoral system.' In the phrase of Abraham Lincoln, democracy is a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
~Archives of the U.S. Department of State #MondayMorning #VoteBlue #MondayMotivaton
~Archives of the U.S. Department of State #MondayMorning #VoteBlue #MondayMotivaton
