Talk:Democracy

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I honestly dissagree that this article is not explaining what democracy is

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Paragraph I've removed[change source]

I've removed the paragraph below, which was previously included in the introduction to this page:

"In very basic terms, there are two kinds of democracies. Those democracies where the people directly chose their leaders are called direct democracies. Because this process can be hard to do if there are many people to choose from, there is also another broad category, called indirect democracy, or representative democracy. With indirect democracy, the people elect a committee (other people), who will then chose the leaders."

This is factually incorrect. A direct democracy is not where the people directly choose their leaders. A direct democracy is where the people directly make the decisions - in other words, where there are no leaders. This means that both Presidential and Parliamentary systems are indirect forms of democracy. This was not made clear in the paragraph I've deleted.

confusing first paragraph[change source]

"Democracy means rule by the people." people would think that 'rule by the people' is the literal definition of democracy

There is rarely any difference between what this article says what the difference of democracy is:

"where the people can take part in the decisions that affect the way their community is run. "

and direct democracy:

"The people meet to decide about new laws, and changes to existing ones. "

In my opinion, I think the sentence should be trimmed down to "It is never used except in small countries and towns because modern populations are too large to do this."

" It is never used except in small countries, or perhaps in towns. Modern populations are usually too large to do this."

Rmwastaken (talk) 05:24, 8 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]