DEMOCRACY 1 AND QUESTIONARY

CONCEPTS OF DEMOCRACY

It is a way of organizing groups of people, whose characteristic is that power resides in all of its members, making decisions to respond to the collective will of the group.

Strictly speaking, democracy is a form of government, state organization, in which collective decisions are made by the people by giving voting power to their representatives.

In a broad sense, democracy is a form of social interaction in which members are free and equal and social relations are established according to a group of established mechanisms.

Democracy is also defined from the classical classification of forms of government by Plato as "the art of politics"

At first, notes that this discipline is essential knowledge for all men, and represents only as an element of education. But its design changes, to become "the art of leading human society" by establishing that society can be governor by the obligation and violence, but through the will of free men.

Questionary
1. Where does the power of democracy reside?
2. What is, strictly speaking, democracy?
3. In a broad sense what is democracy?
4. How else is democracy defined?
5. What is an essential knowledge for all men?
6. Who are the collective decisions made by?
7. How are the collective decisions made by?
8. According to a group of established mechanisms how are its members?
9. How did Plato define democracy?
10. In your own words " What is democracy"


In your notebook copy the paragraph and answer the questionary to recover your grade on this period.