You look at the title’s concept, it actually refers to
that famous phrase “a government of the people, for the people and by the
people.” You don’t have to complicate it. It just simply
presupposes listening to and consulting the people that a government is
intending to rule or govern. Not an autocratic but a democratic
government. Hence you check the origin of the word, the initial part demo
is derived from the Greek demos which means people. The second part of
the word refers to the kind of activity which is more or less general or common
in conceptual meaning.
The meaning is that a democracy takes into consideration
the mind or the will of the people, while aristocracy tends to give unlimited
power to one person. Present trends are democratic, as the more popular
forms, and are also consultative of the people’s opinion.
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