Democracy For Dummies...
Emily Clifford
What is Democracy?
Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
What does Democracy do?
- Allows one to...
- Vote
- Voice opinions
- Choose a Leader
- Disagree and Agree
- Pick own job or career
- Run for office
Democracy - A short introduction
Democracy or Not?
Yes!
United States of America
- The United States is not a direct democracy, in the sense of a country in which laws (and other government decisions) are made predominantly by majority vote. Some lawmaking is done this way, on the state and local levels, but it’s only a tiny fraction of all lawmaking. But we are a representative democracy, which is a form of democracy. -Washington Post, May 13,2015.
Absolutely Not!
North Korea
- Highly Communist country run by Kim Jong- Un.