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Democracy vs Republic
Democracy |
Republic |
| Athenian Democracy in Greece is an early example of democracy. | The early example of the Republic is the Roman Republic (510 BC -27 BC). |
| There are 3 major types of democracy – Direct democracy, Representative Democracy, Constitutional Democracy | The 5 types of Republics are Constitutional Republic, Parliamentary Republic, Presidential Republic, Federal Republic, Theocratic Republic. |
| In Democracy the power is in the hands of the people | In the Republic, power is in the hands of individual citizens. |
| In a democratic system, laws are made by the majority. | In the Republic system, laws are made by the elected representatives of the people. |
| In a democracy, the will of the majority has the right to override the existing rights. | In the Republic system, the will of the majority cannot be overridden since the constitution will protect those rights. |
| A country can have more than 1 type of democracy. | A country can have more than 1 type of Republic |
| In a Democracy there are no constraints on the Government | In a Republic there are constraints on the Government. |
| In a Democracy, the main focus is the general will of the people. |
Direct democracy was the first kind of democracy, in which citizens directly deliberate and decide on laws. Representative democracy is the most common form of democracy today.
Democracy is used to obtain the key positions of power in a republican government. It can also be achieved by combining democracy with oligarchy or autocracy, rather than being occupied in perpetuity by a single family, dynasty, or group.
What is democracy?
Democracy is a form of government in which a state's or polity's laws, policies, leadership, and major undertakings are decided directly or indirectly by the "people," a group historically made up of only a small percentage of the population (e.g., all free adult males in ancient Athens or all sufficiently propertytied adult males in 19th-century Britain), but now widely understood to include all (or nearly all) adult citizens since the mid-20th century.
Where was democracy first practiced?
Democracy, in general, was practised within hunter-gatherer tribes in prehistoric times, according to studies of contemporary nonliterate tribal communities and other evidence. The transition to permanent agricultural communities resulted in income and power disparities between and within communities, as well as hierarchical, nondemocratic social structures. Cleisthenes gave a largely democratic style of government to the city-state of Athens thousands of years later, in the 6th century BCE.
What is republic ?
A government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president .
What are 5 types of republic ?
The 5 types of Republics are Constitutional Republic, Parliamentary Republic, Presidential Republic, Federal Republic, Theocratic Republic.
What is direct democracy ?
Direct democracy was the first kind of democracy, in which citizens directly deliberate and decide on laws.
