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| | Democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Liberal democracy is sometimes the de facto form of government, while other forms are technically the case; for example, Canada has a monarchy, but is in fact ruled by a democratically elected Parliament. | | | A persistent libertarian and monarchist critique of democracy is the claim that it encourages the elected representatives to change the law without necessity, and in particular to pour forth a flood of new laws. | | | Liberal democracy is a type of representative democracy where the ruling government is subject to rule of law and separation of powers, while the people are guaranteed certain inviolable rights. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
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| | What Is Democracy? - Defining Democracy |
| | Democracy is more than a set of constitutional rules and procedures that determine how a government functions. | | | Today, the most common form of democracy, whether for a town of 50,000 or nations of 50 million, is representative democracy, in which citizens elect officials to make political decisions, formulate laws, and administer programs for the public good. | | | In a democracy, the powers of the government are, by law, clearly defined and sharply limited. |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/whatsdem/whatdm2.htm
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| | Definition of Democracy |
| | The United States is a Republic which follows the ideals of a Representative Democracy. | | | In a true democracy the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents or vested rights. | | | Most people we polled for this article didn't realize the Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments to the constitution. |
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http://www.couplescompany.com/Features/Politics/Structure1.htm
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| | Help stop the spread of democracy! |
| | There is no mention of the word democracy in the Constitution by the Chief of Staff of the United States Army. | | | These definitions were published by the authority of the United States Government and must be accepted as authentic in any court of proper jurisdiction. | | | Unlike that envisioned under a republican form of government, rights are seen as privileges and permissions that are granted by government and can be rescinded by government. |
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http://www.devvy.com/democracy_tees.html
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| | Democracy |
| | The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted by the Assembly in 1966, conferred binding legal status on the right of individuals to participate in the processes that constitute the conduct of public affairs, and further strengthened the protection accorded to participatory rights and freedoms. | | | At its 2001 session, the General Assembly adopted resolution 56/96 which formally requests the Secretary-General to examine options for strengthening the support provided by the United Nations system for the efforts of Member States to consolidate democracy, including through the designation of a focal point. | | | The resolution encourages giving particular attention to the Secretary-General’s recommendations that the United Nations should work to develop integrated democracy assistance programmes and locally owned, broad-based common country strategies. |
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http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/democracy
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| | Democracy’s Arrow |
| | We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. | | | This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. | | | Before that can happen, there must be broad public recognition that American democracy is undeniably declining. |
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http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0207-22.htm
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| | Deliberative democracy - encyclopedia article about Deliberative democracy. |
| | Pure democracy is a form of government where the law is the reflection of the will of the majority without any legal limit on that power. | | | The Green Party of the United States refers to its particular proposals for grassroots democracy and electoral reform by this name. | | | The Green Party of the United States officially formed in 2001 from the earlier Association of State Green Parties and received national committee status in November of 2001. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/deliberative%20democracy
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| | Welcome to The American Presidency |
| | The United States form of government has changed in many ways since its infancy. | | | Recognizing these necessary limits, let us examine the substance of democracy. | | | The United States is a democracy with a republican form of government. |
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http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=a2007550-h&templatename=/article/article.html
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| | Representative democracy - Encyclopedia of Political Information |
| | The United Kingdom exemplifies a representative democracy; Germany has been one since 1949. | | | However, these are not always binding and usually require some legislative action - legal power usually remains firmly with representatives. | | | This often involves more powers than a constitutional monarchy or participatory democracy would allocate to the legislators, so almost all constitutions provide for an Independent judiciary, and other measures to balance representative power with citizen power: |
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http://www.politicalinformation.net/encyclopedia/Representative_democracy.htm
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| | The Democratic Delusion- by Justin Raimondo |
| | I'll not quibble over the definition of "liberal democracy," because the evidence of its common meaning — majority will constrained by custom, the Constitution, and the rule of law — is all around us, including our alarm as it slips away. | | | But in the case of Western-style liberal democracy, which depends on the thinking, choosing, voluntary actions of disparate individuals, it cannot be done. | | | The president of the United States has taken up this cause and declared that the goal of our foreign policy is to ignite a " |
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http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6289
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| | E-democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As in a direct democracy, in an EDD citizens would have the right to vote on legislation before parliament, author new legislation and recall representatives at any stage. | | | E-democracy is a neologism and contraction of electronic democracy. | | | Ross Perot was for a time a prominent advocate of EDD when he advocated "electronic town halls" during his 1992 and 1996 Presidential campaigns in the United States. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-democracy
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| | ODYSSEY/Greece/People |
| | Later, the law code was revised, and by the 4th century there was a more direct form of democracy. | | | The form of democracy practiced in Athens was not the same as democracy in the United States today. | | | The written laws were intended to create a more just system of government, but conflicts between the nobility and the poor continued. |
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http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/democracy.html
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| | Open Directory - Society: Politics: Democracy |
| | UNDP Democratization and Governance - United Nations conference on new or restored democracies; documents, statements, links, and related General Assembly resolutions available. | | | National Democratic Institute for International Affairs - Non-profit organization associated with the Democratic Party of the United States. | | | International Republican Institute - Non-partisan Washington, DC-based group which conducts programs outside the United States to promote democracy and strengthen free markets and the rule of law. |
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http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Politics/Democracy
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| | Democracy |
| | With these goals in mind, the United States seeks to: | | | As the nation's primary democracy advocate, DRL is responsible for overseeing the Human Rights and Democracy Fund (HRDF), which was established in 1998 to address human rights and democratization emergencies. | | | Supporting democracy not only promotes such fundamental American values as religious freedom and worker rights, but also helps create a more secure, stable, and prosperous global arena in which the United States can advance its national interests. |
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http://www.state.gov/g/drl/democ
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| | democracy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Despite the increase in the number of countries holding multiparty elections, however, the United Nations issued a study in 2002 that stated that in more than half the world’s nations the rights and freedoms of citizens are limited. | | | A democracy of this sort was possible only in a small state where the people were politically educated, and it was limited since the majority of inhabitants were slaves or noncitizens. | | | The definition of democracy has been expanded, however, to describe a philosophy that insists on the right and the capacity of a people, acting either directly or through representatives, to control their institutions for their own purposes. |
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| | USAID Democracy and Governance |
| | The United States is vigorously engaged in all corners of the globe, acting as a force for peace and prosperity. | | | Democracy and governance programs are technical assistance and other support to strengthen capacity of reform-minded governments, non-governmental actors, and/or citizens in order to develop and support democratic states and institutions that are responsive and accountable to citizens. | | | The strategic long-term domestic and foreign policy objectives of the United States are best served by enlarging the community of democratic nations worldwide. |
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http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/democracy_and_governance
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| | Polis |
| | All major government decisions and legislation were made by the Assembly; the closest we've come to such a system is "initiative and referendum," in which legislation is popularly petitioned and then voted on directly by the electorate. | | | Democracy did not seem to work very democratically at all, in fact. | | | The Greek democratic states ran their entire government on such a system. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GLOSSARY/DEMOC.HTM
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| | Democracy - The Ultimate Political Strategy Game |
| | Democracy starts with you as President (or Prime-Minister) of a modern country. | | | The object of the game is to stay in power as long as possible (there are no limits as to how many terms you may be elected president). | | | The country is a run as a simple democracy where you need to get over 50% of the vote each election in order to remain in power. |
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http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christian Democracy |
| | It is not, and never can be monarchical, or republican, or oligarchical, or parliamentarian, or partisan in politics. | | | Having stated this, it is easy to understand that the existence of Christian democracy is not a thing of yesterday. | | | By involving the ethico-juridical and economical action of Christian democracy in political agitation, he fell into a mistake which was the more unfortunate as the parties of his day made use of it to bring about a violent political crisis. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04708a.htm
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| | The Balkans: Democracy Triumphant |
| | Ethnic parties that came to power in Bosnia after the 1990 election all had "democratic" in their names: Croat Democratic Union (HDZ), Serb Democratic Party (SDS), and the Muslims' Party of Democratic Action (SDA). | | | As the ultimate arbiter of what democracy is and isn't then, it assumes the right to determine the level of democracy in other nations, deciding which elections are democratic and which are not simply by the utility of their outcome. | | | Democracy usually metastasize into dictatorship, when the rulers' lust for power becomes too great for whatever constraints were originally imposed on it. |
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| | Christian Democracy Encyclopedia Article @ OnlineReligion.com (Online Religion) |
| | European Christian Democratic parties have their own regional organization called the European People's Party, which forms the largest group in the European Parliament. | | | Christian Democrats in the country have been known for their advocacy of a shift from the present presidential system to a parliamentary form of government through constitutional amendments and through establishing peace talks with Muslim separatists and communist rebels. | | | The largely Roman Catholic country has elected two Christian Democratic presidents (Fidel V. Ramos, a Protestant, and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, a devout Catholic, both from the ruling Lakas-CMD party). |
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http://www.onlinereligion.com/encyclopedia/Christian_democracy
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| | Ancient Democracy - History for Kids! |
| | There is no king or tyrant, and anybody can propose a new law. | | | But most of them allowed even fewer people to vote than Athens did: most of the other city-states only allowed free adult male citizens to vote IF they owned land or owned their own houses (that is, the richer people). | | | So most democracies sooner or later end up choosing a few men who will do most of the voting, and the rest only come when there is a really important vote. |
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http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/government/democracy.htm
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| | Technorati Tag: democracy |
| | A tag is like a subject or category. | | | Democracy Theory of M. Williams 2005 political philosopher of the year. | | | Breakaway theories of the harmonic constitution, fractal micro-federalism, dialectical constitutionalism. |
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/democracy
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| | Democracy |
| | This Web page to democracy was maintained in place by the following people, while I was imprisoned, in inhuman conditions of incarceration, for fighting for democracy, liberty and justice: | | | Unfortunately, history shows that only armed revolutions bring about significant changes, for democracy is in fact the very last thing which politicians, their political appointees, those who finance their political campaigns and the vast majority of civil servants want to see in Canada and the so-called Free World. | | | In a democracy, politicians are elected, but also removed from office upon the will of its citizens. |
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http://guibord.com/Democracy
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| | Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID), Washington, DC |
| | Lorne Craner, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. State Department | | | Addresses are available online from the CSID 2003 4th Annual Conference ("Why Democracy and why now?") that took place on May 16-17, 2003, at the Wyndham Washington Hotel in Washington, DC. | | | Potential participants from the countries involved are encouraged to submit an application form, in either English or Arabic. |
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http://www.islam-democracy.org
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| | Democracy Dialogues - US Dept of State |
| | Democracy Dialogues is produced and maintained by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs. | | | The Democracy Dialogues Web site will address specific topics of democratic governance through readings, videos, photos, and historical documents, with a new topic introduced every two months. | | | Links to other internet sites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views contained therein. |
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http://www.democracy.gov
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| | Extreme Democracy |
| | With a network-centric approach to advocacy (what I used to call nodal politics), members of the activist network connect as peers, and they all have authority to act and make decisions relevant to their context. | | | Network-centric systems are associated with the phrase power to the edge, a peer-to-peer concept. | | | We've tried to create a book that explores the relationship of social technology and network applications with a more participatory form of politics. |
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http://extremedemocracy.com
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| | Democracy - Internet TV Platform - Free and Open Source |
| | Democracy - Internet TV Platform - Free and Open Source | | | "I'm pleased to support the Democracy platform, because it will enable, for the first time, a large-scale Internet video creation and distribution platform which, because it is based on open standards and open source software, will be available to everyone." | | | Democracy Player is a TV on your desktop-- it's the best application for watching internet TV channels. |
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http://www.getdemocracy.com
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| | Democracy Now!: radio and TV news |
| | Author Stephen Kinzer discusses his new book, "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq." In it, he writes that the invasion of Iraq "was the culmination of a 110-year period during which Americans overthrew fourteen governments that displeased them for various ideological, political, and economic reasons." [includes rush transcript] | | | Find radio and TV stations in your local area that air Democracy Now! | | | To purchase a video/audio copy of any Democracy Now! |
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http://www.democracynow.org
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| | Democracy - US Department of State |
| | Democracy Can Stem Rising Unrest in Nepal, State's Boucher Says | | | United States Welcomes Nepali King's Offer To Restore Democracy | | | “There are 34 democracies in Latin America" Rice tells reporters in Chicago, and Those democracies are worth defending, especially since some of them are still fragile and must resist the encroachments of would-be autocrats from both the left and the right of the political spectrum. |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/dhr/democracy.html
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| | The Writings of Greg Palast |
| | Garner arrived in Kuwait City in March 2003 working under the mistaken notion that when George Bush called for democracy in Iraq, the President meant the Iraqis could choose their own government. | | | Help support the Palast Investigative Fund and select a premium from above -- all personally signed by Greg Palast. | | | Let me tell you a story about the Secretary of Defense you didn't read in the New York Times, related to me by General Jay Garner, the man our president placed in Baghdad as the US' first post-invasion viceroy. |
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http://www.gregpalast.com
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| | E-Democracy.Org - Discussion Forums with Political and Election News, Links and Information |
| | United Kingdom - Building a global model for local democracy in the information age. | | | E-Democracy.Org/Minnesota E-Democracy (read our full About section) is a non-profit, non-partisan citizen-based project, whose mission is to improve participation in democracy through the use of information networks. | | | Your opportunity to volunteer and participate, receive training, donate, do research, provide a link to E-Democracy, or send comments or questions to the core E-Democracy team. |
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http://www.e-democracy.org
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| | Greater Democracy: Democracy for a connected world. |
| | So much is the government shaken that it had to vote for a condemnatory parliamentary resolution. | | | As a result, worldwide agitation and protests have evidently become a terrifying prospect for policymakers of countries such as Pakistan where democracy has been held hostage by the army. | | | "...To Dare Mighty Things..." by Michael Cudahy (written specifically for Greater Democracy) |
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http://www.greaterdemocracy.org
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| | Iraq - Freedom Circle Directory |
| | Six members of Congress, three Democrats and three Republicans, are calling for a full debate [for April 5] on ending the Iraq War." | | | Democracy: The God That Failed: In Iraq, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, by Justin Raimondo, 12 Oct 2005 |
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http://www.freedomcircle.com/topic.php/Iraq
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| | Democracy in international politics - openDemocracy |
| | Anwar Rizvi, recently in Iraq, asks: is this civil war? | | | Faisal Devji marks the arrival of a global Islam to challenge liberal democracy | | | Margot Letain records Belarus' first small steps towards democracy |
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http://www.opendemocracy.net
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| | CDT Main |
| | Copyright © 2006 by Center for Democracy and Technology. |
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