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Evolution of democracy

Evolution of democracy took many years. Before the coming of democracy,it was the monarchy form of government which was followed, where kings and queens were the leaders of the people. Then in Athens, 500BCE people became more conscious about their rights and they started raising voicing for a democratic form of government were they can choose or decide who should rule them. It was considered that Athenian democracy was the purest form of democracy. Athenian democracy was not like the modern form of democracy. It was a direct form of democracy where everyone can vote in the assembly. They made a council of 500 people to look after the daily issues. The key feature of this was no ruler is holding power for a long time, elections are done once or twice in a year.

One of the main drawback of the Athenian democracy was women, slaves, foreigners are not included in the election process. They are not considered as citizens. The other thing is that sometimes people may take decisions emotionally rather than thinking rationally. Sometimes the people are nor able to understand the political questions or situations completely and they won’t be able to take a right decision. In democratic form of government always majorities opinion are valued, so the minorities are neglected even though their opinion is right. The chance for increasing corruption is also there.