Democracy

The English word ‘democracy’ is the union of two Greek words ‘demo’ and ‘kratia’ demo means ‘crowd’ and ‘kratia’ means power. In this sense democracy means power of the crowd. But, however, the meaning of word democracy is little different in reality than in true sense of the word ‘Democracy’ very commonly means now, a rule by a majority of the people who act according to certain rules and regulation widely accepted by the people of a country. The most famous definitions of democracy is as Abraham Lincin said, ‘it is the government of the people, by the people and for the people.’


Democracy has many merits. It encourages and enables equal opportunities to make progress to all the people. People enjoy their rights. There is no difference for power since every citizen is equally granted with one vote right. People are supreme and cannot be exploited by any dictator or group of persons. It gives freedom of espression to the masses.