It is a concept of freedom and justice to all who live under such a “government.” The concept of democracy has evolved over thousands of years blending additional elements to the concoction and because of this, cultural diffusion of democratic principle has become what it is today. Democracy has undergone evolutionary adaptation in response to historical circumstances. .

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely (Lord Acton).” The more power governments have, the more human insecurity exists. The famous democratic freedom is the main generator of national and individual wealth and prosperity.

s derived from two Greek words; demos or people and kratein or to rule. Due to the root of the word democracy originating in Greece, one can only conclude that this is where direct democracy was propagated. Although the founding of our modern political system took place over 2,000 years ago, the event still has major

The 1776, “the Fathers were especially fearful that the poor would plunder the rich, but most of them would probably agree that unrestrained, the rich would plunder the poor...”

Simultaneously in the Roman Empire an indirect form of democracy was exercised. Still advocating the majority rule, the Romans elected representatives who stood for groups of people and presented their ideas. All people still had the right to vote. The public still felt as though they had power and everyone still had their rights. This form of representative government prospers in America today. The United States is a product of a culturally diffused philosophy of democracy. Employing the philosophy of common suffrage and popular sovereignty of the Athenian model on the form of the representative “Republican” Roman democratic government, the politically democrat

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