What is democracy

Democracy is a form of government that all citizens have equal right to speak about the state policy.

Greek dimocratia (ie dimos, people, society, that is, Kratos, power) is derived from the words.

It came to Turkish from the French word democratie. Although it is mostly known as a form of state government, universities, workers and boss organizations and some civilian institutions and organizations can be managed by democracy. Philosophers in ancient Greece, the main home of democracy (such as Aristotle and Eflatun), criticized democracy, and at that time, humiliating concepts such as "simple people's management" were used.

However, democracy has become the most widely used form of government administration by standing out of other forms of government. Now political scientists have been discussed which system is better than which system is better.

The meaning of democracy is still being discussed today. The reason for this is that the people who want to justify their views should be a process to justify themselves in the form of "democracy requires" or "the right democracy is what we do."

The foundations of Democracy come from the countries in the Mediterranean region, and in the 6th century Greek philosophers developed democracy. The ancient Greek system called PIOUS is the closest form of administration to today's democracy.

In many countries in history, there were people who look at or helped him instead of the king, but the king had the right to oppose the viziers who gave him the most superior power. However, democracy means the direction of the people and there is never one man administration in democracy. Managers must constantly go on. Otherwise, even if it has come to the election, it turns into a dictator system that does not listen to people.

The Greeks, who lived in small communities from ten thousand people in the Greek administration in history, used the right to speak in every decision of the government and had the right to vote. People like the deputy of the nation would not need people, the people would decide themselves in one -to -one votes.

But the weakness in the Greek administration system: Women and slaves were not the right to vote, but the men were not inconvenient to rule the country, but the remaining part was over 50 %. This situation can be called the "male -dominated democracy" system, not the management of the people.

As the date progressed, different countries took this Greek administration system and changed it within their own structure, but none of them approached the understanding of democracy as the Greeks.

In later periods, the Roman Empire developed a similar system in 509 BC. There was a class of nobles in the Roman, and only the right and votes were valid in the administration. Nobility, such as today's nation deputies, could vote for the decisions made on behalf of the state by using their power.

Roman politician and thinker Cicero argued that everyone should have equal votes in the elections. The philosophers who think like him have said that the power will come from people. Democracy in the Middle Ages

Until the rise of Christianity, democracy could not reach its true power, and in Christianity, "all people have been created equally in the sight of God", the advocates of democracy increased their voices.

Courts were established with the search for democracy Democracy during feudalism, and these courts and jury systems formed the foundations of the present -day system. Subsequent parliamentary systems and the nobles working under the command of the king gradually changed to forming today's democracy.

BC in 1215 in England Magna Carta thinker for democracy has opened a new era. With the pressure of the nobles, King John supported the system called parliament or legislator. Thus, a superior power superior to the King was first approved. In the last years (1628), the King's Parliament became unable to get unauthorized taxes. Freedom of speech was accepted. People were given more authority to express themselves. But there was still no real sense of democracy in England, democracy could not find its real personality until it was founded in the United States in the future.

American Revolution

The most robust steps on the road to contemporary democracy were taken with the American Revolution. The Declaration of Independence (1776) and the foundations of democracy were taken from former philosophers and rewritten by Thomas Jefferson on modern foundations.

With the French Revolution, a similar movement of ideas started and the idea that freedom would occur with the rise of equal justice and self -expression.

With the Declaration of Human Rights, democracy has gained its real personality. The currents of revolution spread all over the world have transformed as an idea that the peoples receive orders from a wider audience instead of a single man, and there are still dictators and oligarchic order in the world. But all these management systems end with the search for democracy and destroy with revolutions.

Democracy briefly: When the majority speaks, the minority remains silent.

Although they claim otherwise, this is the system all over the world. However, the rights of minorities in democracy should also be protected.