Heather Arnold

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                                                              Heather Arnold


     Democracy is a form of government in which citizens agree to work together in ruling a state. Today, the essential features are that citizens bee free… in speech and in assembly. This agreement between the citizens must be accomplished in order to form competing political parties, so all voters are able to choose the candidates in regular elections.
     The tem democracy comes from the Greek words demos, meaning people, and kratia, meaning rule.  The first democratic forms of government developed in Greek city-states in the sixth century BC.  Although the term demos is said to mean just the poor, Aristotle’s Constitution of Athens shows that all citizens were included and fully participated in the government.  Minors, women, slaves, and foreigners were even included, although about ninety percent of the population were not citizens.  Then the Greek democratic establishments collapsed.  Democratic ideas did not reappear until the seventeenth century.  The new United States of America became the first modern democratic state.  In the twentieth century, most states have called themselves democratic.
     Aristotle wrote that constitutional democracy might be the ideal form of government.  “A man is by nature a political animal. He believed that the community and its people try to do good in the eyes of the government.  Everyone is equal, whether they be a statesman, a king, or a household manager.  They all have the same rights.  The government should be divided into smaller parts rather than one large government.  Nothing is broken faster than a man’s word.  A man is trusted to make a promise and to keep that promise.
     Aristotle also believe that everything starts out small and simple.  Then it grows and grows, forming the circle of life.  This also includes communities becoming cities and states.  Communities start out as families, the eldest ruling the rest of the family.  Even a family needs some type of government.
     Another belief is that everything is natural.  What is meant to be will happen.  It is the people’s fault if they are not willing to accept the truth and let nature take its course.  If people refuse to agree with what is meant to be, the whole body shall be destroyed. If a man is unable to live in society, he must be either a beast or a god. He is no part of the state.  A social instinct is inborn in all men by nature.
     What is meant by a democratic government?  This country’s morals are based o...

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