Question

A short paper on the meaning of our Democracy?

Are we a Democracy?

Answer 1

Freedom and democracy are frequently used interchangeably but they are not synonymous with both. Democracy is also a collection of independence ideals and values, but it often consists of a series of processes and procedures developed over a long, sometimes tortuous history. In short, the institutionalisation of freedom is democracy. For this reason, the time-tested fundamentals of constitutional government, human rights, and equality can be identified before the law that any society must possess in order to properly be called democratic.

Democracies fall into two basic, direct, and representative categories. In a direct democracy, all people can vote in democratic policy taking, without the influence of elected or appointed officials. Such a structure is actually only feasible for very limited groups of individuals — in a civic group or tribal council, for example, or in a trade union's local unit, where leaders can gather in one room to address problems and make agreements by consensus or majority vote. Ancient Athens, the first democracy in the country, attempted to exercise direct democracy with an assembly which may have numbered as many as 5,000 to 6,000 people

The US is not a direct democracy, in the case of a nation where laws (and other political decisions) are primarily decided by majority vote. Any regulation is done this way, on the state and municipal level, but it's just a tiny fraction of all regulation. But we're a democratic representative which is a form of democracy.