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Democracy is summarized in 3 sentences: Democracy allows citizens to exercise power directly or through elected representatives, originating in ancient Greek city-states like Athens where male citizens participated in government. A modern democracy consists of free and fair elections, active citizen participation in politics and civic life, protection of human rights for all citizens, and equal rule of law. While theoretically opposed to other forms of government, democracy in practice has elements of direct citizen participation as well as representative structures.

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Democracy is summarized in 3 sentences: Democracy allows citizens to exercise power directly or through elected representatives, originating in ancient Greek city-states like Athens where male citizens participated in government. A modern democracy consists of free and fair elections, active citizen participation in politics and civic life, protection of human rights for all citizens, and equal rule of law. While theoretically opposed to other forms of government, democracy in practice has elements of direct citizen participation as well as representative structures.

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After reading the descriptive text 2 (Democracy), please try to analyze its structure of identification and description as it is done in text
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This is the identification & description of text1: DEMOCRACY

Democracy, in modern usage, is a system of government in which the citizens


General identification: exercise power directly or elect representatives from among themselves to form a
IDENTIFICATION where, who, when, and governing body, such as a parliament. Democracy is sometimes referred to as "rule of
what the majority". Democracy is a system of processing conflicts in which outcomes depend
on what participants do, but no single force controls what occurs and its outcomes.
The uncertainty of outcomes is inherent in democracy, which makes all forces
struggle repeatedly for the realization of their interests, being the devolution of power
from a group of people to a set of rules. Western democracy, as distinct from that which
Important detail 1 existed in pre-modern societies, is generally considered to have originated in city states
such as Classical Athens and the Roman Republic, where various schemes and degrees
of enfranchisement of the free male population were observed before the form
disappeared in the West at the beginning of late antiquity. The English word dates to the
DESCRIPTION
16th century, from the older Middle French and Middle Latin equivalents.
According to political scientist Larry Diamond, democracy consists of four key
elements: a political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and
Important detail 2 fair elections; the active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life;
protection of the human rights of all citizens; a rule of law, in which the laws and
procedures apply equally to all citizens.
The term appeared in the 5th century BC, to denote the political systems then
existing in Greek city-states, notably Athens, to mean "rule of the people", in contrast
to aristocracy (ἀριστοκρατία, aristokratía), meaning "rule of an elite". While
theoretically these definitions are in opposition, in practice the distinction has been
Important detail 3 blurred historically. The political system of Classical Athens, for example, granted
democratic citizenship to free men and excluded slaves and women from political
participation. In virtually all democratic governments throughout ancient and modern
history, democratic citizenship consisted of an elite class until full enfranchisement was
won for all adult citizens in most modern democracies through the suffrage movements
of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Democracy contrasts with forms of government where power is either held by an
individual, as in an absolute monarchy, or where power is held by a small number of
individuals, as in an oligarchy. Nevertheless, these oppositions, inherited from Greek
Important detail 4 philosophy, are now ambiguous because contemporary governments have mixed
democratic, oligarchic, and monarchic elements. Karl Popper defined democracy in
contrast to dictatorship or tyranny, thus focusing on opportunities for the people to
control their leaders and to oust them without the need for a revolution.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy)

Democracy, the citizens exercise power directly, "rule of the


Introduction majority".
2 Text 2 Description:
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1 The origin of democracy
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2 Four key elements in democracy
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3 History of democracy and democracy with other forms of government.

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