1. Election of 1912
The word "democracy," as well as the concept it represents, can be traced back to the area surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. The beginnings of democracy can be credited to the Greeks of the sixth century BC. The word comes from two Greek words: demos, meaning "the people," and kratein, meaning "to rule." These two words are joined together to form democracy, literally meaning, "rule by the people" (Pious). The Greek system of government was perhaps closer to a true democracy or rule by the people than any other in history. ...
Our nation's Constitution specified how the president was to be elected, but left who was allowed to vote up to the states. ... In a lawsuit brought against the state of Pennsylvania on the behalf of possibly disenfranchised voters, Judge Robert Simpson of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled in favor of a voter ID law that could stop thousands of Pennsylvania residents from voting. ...
Robert in 1962 defined it as the art and practice of government of human societies'. ... Francis Fukuyama, US social analyst and political commentator says "Most scholars in both the East and West now accept that consumer oriented democracies tend to do a much better job of satisfying the basic human needs and the material wants of their people than any of the leading systemic alternatives on either the political left or the political right."" ...