It's a broad description of a TYPE of government.
Nope. A democracy is government by popular vote. There is no constitution and there are no representatives. There are currently no democracies in the world today.
Either the people elect the government, or they don't.
A government is not elected. It simply is.
There is nothing in between. The word "democracy" refers to any type of government that does.
A democracy is a type of government. It is not elected. It is government by popular vote. It has not constitution, and it has no representatives.
Absolutely 100% NOT! Your claim would simply imply that democracies don't exist and have never existed.
Democracies have existed, dumbass. Currently there are no democracies anywhere in the world.
Because even in the ancient direct democracies,
There is no such thing as a "direct democracy". There is only a democracy, or there is not.
even though the people voted on significant things, they delegated many decisions to representatives.
Democracies have no representatives.
Again: it's simply a very broad term.
Nope. It's a very specific term.
ANY form of government that is excercised by the people is a democracy.
Nope. A republic is not a democracy. An oligarchy is not a democracy. A dictatorship is not a democracy.
Any form that is NOT is a dictatorship. Be it by one person or by a group of people (an elite).
A dictatorship has only one king.
A "dictatorship" by committee is an oligarchy.
"Redefinition" from WHAT?
RQAA.
So you think countries like the UK, Norway, Netherlands... are Republics. No! They are constitutional monarchies! And they ARE democracies.
The UK is currently an oligarchy. Norway is currently a republic. Netherlands is currently a republic. None of them are a democracy. An oligarchy is not a republic. A republic is not a democracy. Redefinition fallacies.
That's ridiculous. Republics are countries in which THE LAW establishes a mechanism to select the head of state.
Correct.
In a monarchy, the head of state inherits is appointed, usually by marriage or inheritence.
Also correct. I never said otherwise.
In the large majority of Republics the head of state is the President.
He can have any title.
However, it makes no difference what they call the head of state.
Apparently it does to YOU. YOU brought it up!
In a parliamentary republic (South Africa, for example) the head of state is the Prime Minister and the President only has protocolary (but not executive) powers.
The current form of government in South Africa is oligarchy.
Oh for God's sake! The British are going to be PISSED to learn that.
Considering how abusive that oligarchy is becoming, they ARE pissed.
Ever hear about the United KINGDOM? Or are you saying that the UK is not a democracy
The UK is currently an oligarchy. It is not a democracy.
Correct. They are not democracies. But they ARE Republlics.
The UK is not a republic.
NK is an exception of a Republic that doesn't use the title "President". They call him "Supreme Leader". That makes no difference. NK has elections to the People's Assembly every four (or five, I don't remember) years. And they have a constituton. Therefore, they are a Constitutinoal Republic.
There is no such thing as a "constitutional republic". All republics have constitutions.
Just NOT a democracy because the People's Assembly simply keeps electing the same Supreme Leader over and over under duress.
It is not a democracy because it has a constitution. It does not matter who votes for what, so long as the constitution is followed.
The role of President as is known today was pretty much invented by US. It DEFINED what in modern days is known as "democracy". Of course modern concepts exists!
The United States was never a democracy. There is no "modern concept". You are just trying to redefine words again. Go learn English.
Because according to YOUR fabricated definition,
I did not define "democracy", dumbass.
no democracy has ever existed in any nation in history.
Yes it has. A democracy, however, is an unstable form of government. It usually dissolves into an oligarchy or dictatorship before long. Athens, which was a democracy, dissolved into a dictatorship.
Simplistic. But toally WRONG!
You can't redefine words that way! Go learn English.
There is nothing magic about words.
Who said there was?
Words are created, changed, defined, re-deined.... many times in the history of a language.
No, you can't redefine words that way!
This happens because words exist to communicate something that exists. And the word "democracy" communicates a type of government that is not a dictatorship.
A democracy is not a negative. A democracy is government by popular vote.
For that reason, in political science that is how the term is used.
Science has no politics. There is no such thing as "political science".
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