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	Democracy
		Democracy is a form of government in which policy is decided by the preference of the majority in a decision-making process, usually elections or referendums, open to all or most citizens.
		In modern democracies, the territory is the nation-state, and since this corresponds (in theory) with the homeland of the nation, the demos and the reach of the democratic process neatly coincide.
		Nevertheless, some supporters of democracy claim that statistical research shows that the fall of Communism and the increase in the number of democratic states were accompanied by a sudden and dramatic decline in total warfare, interstate wars, ethnic wars, revolutionary wars, and the number of refugees and displaced persons [2].
	abcworld.net /democracy.html (6786 words)

	For Democracy \| Of the people, By the people...
		A Republic is a Democracy, if well organized it is the individual people who elect or in another word hire with his ballot a representative who is supposed to serve this individual wishes which are mostly the same wishes that of the other constituents who elected the same representative.
		A misuse of Democracy by the citizen is when they have thanks to this system became giants but instead of giving back generously to their Democratic Country, they divert 100% of the benefit in power and wealth to more individual power and wealth for them, their sponsors or their party members.
		Democracy is not only a form of government but it is also a philosophy, which enable a person to walk with his head up, make his or her ideas known without being imprisoned the next day.
	fordemocracy.com (5020 words)

	Chinese Democracy
		Out of the cacophony of cries for democracy and reform in 1978 and 1979, the loudest and most radical was that of Wei Jingsheng, a Beijing electrician and son of two high-ranking Party officials.
		Given this long and tortuous history of democracy in China, and the numerous connotations and layers of meaning associated with the term "minzhu", when the term appeared on wall posters again in 1989, it was sometimes used less for its intrinsic meaning than for its ability to link present concerns with those of the past.
		The "Goddess of Democracy," although it had plenty of antecedents in Chinese religious and political ceremonies, was also instrumental in tugging the heartstrings of millions of Westerners who drew a connection to the Statue of Liberty and assumed that Chinese aspirations were identical to their own.
	www.tsquare.tv /themes/essay.html (1409 words)

	John Keane - Research - History of Democracy Project Outline
		History is often said to be a catalogue of human crimes, a slaughterhouse of follies and misfortunes, but that is not always so.
		Democracy meant self-government among equals, the lawful rule of an assembly of people whose sovereign power to decide things was no longer to be given over to imaginary gods, the stentorian voices of tradition, to blood-guzzling despots, or simply handed over to the everyday habit of unthinkingly allowing others to decide matters of any importance.
		In sum, it tries to bring democracy to the history of democracy : initially by granting a vote to events, institutions and people whose enduring contributions to democracy have been buried by their enemies in the deep holes of the past.
	www.johnkeane.net /research/research_history_outline.htm (6351 words)

	History of democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The history of democracy traces back from its origins in ancient world to its re-emergence and rise from the 17th century to the present day.
		One of the earliest instances of democracy in a civilization was found in republics in ancient India, which were established sometime before the 6th century BC, and prior to the birth of Gautama Buddha.
		Athenian democracy, was based on selection of officials by lot, and decisions in other cases by majority rule.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_democracy (3786 words)

	A More Perfect Union - History of Democracy
		This was almost a total democracy except for the fact that women and slaves (over 50% of the population) were not considered citizens and were not allowed to vote.
		Their government was a representative democracy, which had representatives from the nobility in the Senate and representatives from the commoners in the Assembly.
		The concept of democracy continued to be prevalent in Europe with the philosophies of an English philosopher by the name of John Locke and a French philosopher named Jean Jacques Rousseau.
	library.thinkquest.org /26466/history_of_democracy.html (1216 words)

	History for a Democracy
		The history that accompanied the culture of Christendom was a history of mankind; the history that accompanied the rise of nations was, in fact, a number of separate histories, one for each nation.
		Family history to nourish individualism; local history to nourish federalism; and participation of all the people in the investigation of their past to nourish the sense of their participation in determining their future — this is the triple program I wish to present.
		History of the Constitution, only the few and the great have left mementoes of their lives; but in these millions and millions of obscure documents, standing on the shelves of thousands of public buildings throughout the country, all our names are written down.
	www.wallandbinkley.com /rcb/articles/histdemo-output.html (7987 words)

	BBC - History - The Democratic Experiment
		There's a theory that the word demokratia was coined by democracy's enemies, members of the rich and aristocratic elite who did not like being outvoted by the common herd, their social and economic inferiors.
		Those cities that were not democracies were either oligarchies - where power was in the hands of the few richest citizens - or monarchies, called 'tyrannies' in cases where the sole ruler had usurped power by force rather than inheritance.
		Of the democracies, the oldest, the most stable, the most long-lived, but also the most radical, was Athens.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/ancient/greeks/greekdemocracy_01.shtml (323 words)

	History of Hungary Magyars, Hungarian Democracy, Budapest History
		History of Hungary Magyars, Hungarian Democracy, Budapest History
		The revolution of March 15, 1848 was a milestone in the history of revolutions in Europe.
		In 1944 a new Hungarian government was formed in Debrecen, a town in the Eastern part of the country which had by this time been liberated.
	www.gotohungary.com /history/history.shtml (1353 words)

	National Institute of American History & Democracy \| NIAHD
		The National Institute of American History and Democracy (NIAHD) is a partnership between the College of William and Mary and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
		The Williamsburg Semester-in-Residence Program in Early American History offers students from colleges and universities world-wide the opportunity to study early America for a Fall or a Spring at the College of William and Mary through courses taught "on-site" at historic places, including especially Colonial Williamsburg but extending to many other museums in the Chesapeake region.
		is the Director of Internships for the National Institute of American History and Democracy.
	www.wm.edu /niahd (379 words)

	History of Democracy - History Forum
		The American democracy is a representative democracy - not every person votes on every issue; we elect representatives who we hope will vote the way we want them to, or in our best interests.
		To be sure, it does revise important aspects of the literal meaning of democracy as direct rule by "the people" (to which ancient Athens remains the closest approximation).
		I used to think that modern Western democracy had its intellectual origins in the emphasis of the Protestant Reformation on the moral sovereignty of the individual.
	www.simaqianstudio.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=1292 (1561 words)

	World History of Democracy: Democracy at the Basic Level
		The villages of New England have such an important place in the scholarship and folklore of democratic history that it is easy to forget that their situation was not so different from that of other villages throughout history.
		History shows, we believe, that democracy is not just a late-blooming theory with no roots in general human experience, but has roots in human nature and the realities of social life.
		The "democracy" on the local sphere emerges from a recognition that a substantial number of people (whether in a single compact community, in a fairly well-defined ecological district, or in the same economic plight) share certain interests, and that the only way to protect or promote those interests is through voluntary, or mostly voluntary cooperation.
	www.nipissingu.ca /department/history/muhlberger/histdem/localdem.htm (5412 words)

	Democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Liberal democracy is a representative democracy (with free and fair elections) along with the protection of minorities, the rule of law, a separation of powers, and protection of liberties (thus the name liberal) of speech, assembly, religion, and property.
		In modern democracies the demos is the adult portion of the nation, and adult citizenship is usually equivalent to membership.
		In modern democracies, the territory is the nation-state, and since this corresponds (in theory) with the homeland of the nation, the demos and the reach of the democratic process neatly coincide.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democracy (5183 words)

	World History Blog: Democracy
		In a democracy, the source of all authority -- the legitimate basis of all power -- is the collective body of the people, the citizens of the polity.
		We hope to describe the history, institutions, and people of democratic Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, to publish the efforts of scholars to answer questions about Athenian democracy, and to invite you, our audience, to explore, discover, and judge for yourselves.
		She was succeeded as Director by Guntars Catlaks, a researcher at the Latvian Institute of History and a teacher at N. Draudzina Gymnasia in Riga.
	world-history-blog.blogspot.com /search/label/Democracy (2374 words)

	Writing History with Democracy and Defending Taiwan with Referendum (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Many countries with a longstanding history of democracy, such as Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany, have held referendums at both the national and local level.
		History will concur that Mainland China virtually never supports what the people of Taiwan want, though rarely does their protest entail open opposition.
		History will prove that the first step taken by the 23 million people of Taiwan on March 20, 2004, beyond representing a magnificent step forward in the history of Taiwan's democratic progress, signifies a crucial "giant leap" in the pursuit of peace in the Taiwan Strait.
	www.taipei.org /press/chen02032004.html (2636 words)

	History and Democracy - Harvard Magazine (September-October 2006)
		Democracy is nothing without the rule of law, administered by an independent judiciary; yet it is also diminished and threatened when that rule favors one or more portions of the citizenry to the exclusion or even at the expense of the rest.
		Yet to pit the history of the few and the great against that of the many, as some practitioners of both modes recently have, defeats democratic history.
		Finally, though, if leaders give democracy’s history its shape and tone, they must draw much of their own shape and tone from those they would wish to lead.
	www.harvardmagazine.com /on-line/090620.html (2116 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States: Books: Alexander Keyssar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States should be on your required reading list if you are interested in the history of the democratic experiment in the United States.
		This is a very good history of the right to vote over the course of American history, with some surprises that shouldn't be for those left teary-eyed by the Fourth of July speeches concerning such matters.
		The Right to Vote (The Contested History of Democracy in the United States) by Alexander Keyssar is, first of all, marvelous for not being a triumphalist look at the march towards a perfect democracy.
	www.amazon.ca /Right-Vote-Contested-History-Democracy/dp/0465029698 (1747 words)

	Ancient Democracy - History for Kids!
		When democracy proved to be successful in Athens, many other city-states chose it for their government too.
		But most of them allowed even fewer people to vote than Athens did: most of the other city-states only allowed free adult male citizens to vote IF they owned land or owned their own houses (that is, the richer people).
		Democracy spread around the Mediterranean, but it was pretty much wiped out by the Roman Empire about 100 BC.
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/government/democracy.htm (431 words)

	Lecture 6: The Athenian Origins of Direct Democracy
		The Spartan constitution was mixed, containing elements of monarchy, oligarchy and democracy.
		With such a personal interest in his democracy, Cleisthenes believed that there would be no citizens to conspire and attempt to abolish the system.
		Under Pericles, ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY came to mean the equality of justice and the equality of opportunity.
	www.historyguide.org /ancient/lecture6b.html (2724 words)

	Democracy in America
		Democracy in America began before the first shots were ever fired in the American Revolution.
		The Mayflower Compact was the first move toward democracy on the North American continent.
		The history of the United States has broadened the voting public to include minorities, women and young adults, all of whom bring their own issues and responsibilities to their ideal candidates.
	www.channel2.org /vote/democracy.htm (1901 words)

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		To be civilized and in step Democracy is the current Mantra of governance, everybody mistrusts China because it is not democratic but powerful.
		Democracy is the result, not the reason in the history.
		As for pointing out the Philipines as a failed democracy, they are also fighting a long time civil war against Commie and muslim terrorists.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/30-83332.aspx (368 words)

	The history of democracy and the left in world history
		Hartford Web Publishing is not the author of the documents in World History Archives and does not presume to validate their accuracy or authenticity nor to release their copyright.
		There are many different concepts of democracy, but the differences come down to different means to achieve the idea of democracy.
		Whether the triumph of western democracy brings the collapse of democratic participation because needs are satisfied; whether the values of consuming have conquered the virtues of citizenship.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/27a/index-a.html (286 words)

	History, Democracy, and Citizenship \| The Debate over History's Role in Teaching Cititzenship and Patriotism \| ...
		This debate about using history to teach citizenship, democracy, and patriotism is also taking place across the nation in places where state social studies and history standards for the schools are being reconsidered.
		Revisionist history is blamed for being critical of the United States and uninterested in conveying the singularity of the America experience and the significance of our nation’s values.
		History is a continuing dialogue between the present and the past.” According to McPherson, “Interpretations of the past are subject to change in response to new evidence, new questions asked of the evidence, new perspectives gained by the passage of time.
	www.oah.org /reports/tradhist.html (6751 words)

	Gambling with History: Bringing Democracy to the Middle East
		Patrick Basham is senior fellow in the Center for Representative Democracy at the Cato Institute.
		In practice, however, overt support for democracy is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for democratic institutions to emerge.
		A liberal democracy requires three things: a system of representative government; a framework of liberal political norms and values; and social and institutional pluralism.
	www.cato.org /pub_display.php?pub_id=3214 (858 words)

	me, 2.0: a history of democracy
		as the american government wants to try and bring democracy to the middle east, and as democractic movements are maturing in places like eastern europe, latin america, and southeast asia, i have to wonder how much we as americans really know about democracy in its most fragile form, when it is just beginning.
		as we face emerging democracies in today's political climate, we should also look to those historical lessons as guides to how we as an american people, a democratic people the world over, can support those changes.
		in my readings, i haven't found a cohesive history of democracy, and i'm asking you to point one out to me. it should be worldy and informed, and well written, and, of course, accurate.
	monkey.org /~jose/blog/viewpage.php?page=history_of_democracy (372 words)

	World History Blog: Democracy in Hawaii
		It ignores that fact that the Hawaiian Kingdom was imposed upon the majority of Hawaii without the consent of Hawaiians by King Kamehameha.
		Crawford is actually speaking up for democracy and would respect a democratic vote today.
		When I look at the history, I happen to think occupation is the truth, and I think it is important that people know that many others in Hawaii also hold this view.
	www.worldhistoryblog.com /2007/12/democracy-in-hawaii.html (1284 words)

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