The Criticism of Democracy and the Illustration of its Reality What is democracy and what are its origins? Democracy is the principle of the mastership of the people; and that mastership is an absolute and a supreme authority. This authority consists in the...
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The Criticism of Democracy and the Illustration of its Reality What is democracy and what are its origins? Democracy is the principle of the mastership of the people; and that mastership is an absolute and a supreme authority. This authority consists in the people's right to choose their leaders and legislate whatever laws they want. The people usually practice this authority through delegation, by electing MPs who will represent them in the parliament and practices authority on their behalf. This mastership is the supreme authority above which there is no authority. Joseph Frankel - a western politician said: `the mastership means the supreme authority, which does not acknowledge any authority to be above it.' (The word `parliament' derives from the French word `parler', to speak or talk, and from the middle ages kings summoned representative advisers to their palace at Westminster to discuss the affairs of state.) The modern democratic system was founded in England and France, then f
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