Democracy

Claiming itself as the “model of democracy”, the US has shown double standards toward the democracy and human rights of other countries by incessantly interfering in their internal affairs and waging wars under the guise of “democracy”.

If we want our children to grow up in a democracy — not just with elections, but a true democracy, a representative democracy, a big-hearted, tolerant, vibrant, inclusive America of perpetual self-creation — then we are going to have to be more like John.

By Mohammad Sarwar Ahmadzai-Elections are the backbone of democracy–democracy and elections are synonymous with each other, in the absence of true and transparent elections democracy in not envisaged.

According to him, every democracy in the world is rooted, planted and established on rule of law, saying no democracy can survive without institutions respecting the rule of law.

And hopefully they will ask themselves how they were led like sheeple to believe that Israel’s democracy was in danger… from democracy.

Any vote for Tinubu is a vote for the death of democracy in Nigeria, it’s a vote for the death of electoral democracy in Nigeria.

Athens maintained a democracy for around two centuries, before war with Sparta caused a revolution that effectively ended Athenian democracy in 411 B.C. Today, Greece utilizes a parliamentary republic, with three branches.

But I’m also convinced that it is possible to do it under democracy, but not in the type of democracy being imposed from Washington.

Call the United States a democracy and a chorus of right-wing fanatics will stridently insist that this is a “republic not a democracy,” never mind that our representatives are democratically elected.

Except that these much-too-powerful actors have upset Israeli democracy by usurping powers to themselves never intended by Israel’s founders or parliamentarians; powers which extend far beyond those held by the legal system in any other democracy.

He asked if there is no debate or discussion in a democracy, “what kind of democracy is it”.

Here is the statement that Biden sent me on Saturday afternoon when I asked for comment: “The genius of American democracy and Israeli democracy is that they are both built on strong institutions, on checks and balances, on an independent judiciary.

If democracy became successful outside the western hemisphere including India, it was because we had the concept of spiritual democracy,” Khan said.

It also echoes the work of the Alliance of Democracies, which will bring together leading politicians, business leaders, and democracy activists from around the world at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit in May.

It is not as if we cannot use democracy to develop Nigeria, but certain fundamental things must be on the ground before people can appreciate democracy.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan accused the BJP-ruled Centre of 'undoing' the foundations of the nation's democracy and called for a 'new resistance' to protect secularism, democracy and the Constitution.

Santos said that investment into these universities is like an investment into Brazilian democracy, as the universities were centers for democracy during the military regime.

The number of countries moving toward authoritarianism is more than double the number moving toward democracy, according to the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.

The PTI chief said the movement would also help to achieve “haqeeqi democracy” (real democracy) where there would be rule of law.

There can be no space in American democracy for this sort of thing, or there won’t be American democracy.