DEMOCRACY

• Democracy word etymology

  Demos - people, Kratos - power
• Democracy 


  A form of government and a political ideology
• Democracy as a political system

  in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving PERIODICALLY HELD FREE elections.
• Direct democracy


  people THEMSELVES run the government
• Indirect democracy


  people elect a representative who will be the one to administer them. the chosen representative only REPRESENTS and acts according to the will of the people
• Cleisthenes


  Father of Athenian Democracy. He proposed that city states that all people will come when there are decisions to made
• Who introduced the concept of democracy to Filipinos?

  Americans
• Government of the people, by the people, for the people
• Government of the people


  Refers to the government's composition. Refers to the fact that a democratic government is made up of people WHO COME FROM THE PEOPLE
• Government by the people


  Refers to who chooses the people who make up the government. Essentially it means that it is a government comprised of common people who are chosen by common people. There is an expectation that those people are like the commonmen.
• Government for the people


  It indicates that the main purpose or objective of the government is to improve the welfare of the people