That their chosen leaders are freely elected by a popular majority.
Voting is an important process.
Pretty much all of them. The only true democracies in the Middle East are Israel, Turkey, and Cyprus.
to vote
It is impractical for all members of large societies to vote on all matters.
they all have majority rules
yes, true
there was no true ruler of all of Greece because a lot of the city states had different governments so they had democracies, monarchies, and oligarchies.
Almost all of Europe is made of democracies. All 28 European Union members are democracies, most notably Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden. Another five to ten are illiberal democracies and only Belarus and Russia are proper dictatorships.
The two types of democracies are direct democracies, or pure democracies, and indirect democracies, or more often referred to as representative democracies. The two differ in their distribution of political power; in a direct democracy, political power is held by all citizens of the state and in an indirect democracy, political power is held by an elect group of citizens.
democracies believed all people within' borders were citizens.
democracies believed all people within' borders were citizens.
The US offers foreign aid mostly to support struggling democracies and countries that are critical to foreign policy objectives is true.