Negatives Of Democracy

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The democracy is slowly losing the essence of itself that is freedom and the political system in which all citizens are capable of voting for leaders to represent their interest or voting for interest directly. Modern political democracy is a system of governance in which rulers are held accountable for their actions in the public realm by citizens. (Diamond, 2012) Democracy enhance the dignity of the citizen .Thus democracy improve the quality of decision making. In the last decades Democracy lose its integrity, because of corruption from the Politician. Many philosopher thinks that the present democratic system is no longer successful like Winston S. Churchill (1989); He think that Democracy is the worst form of government.
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The real form of government is of course totally oligarchic. There are some liberalist sides in this oligarchic regime: certain human's and citizen's rights, a so-called free press, etc. But if one examines who are really governing, who really have power in their hands, one will realize that even in the worst periods of the so-called Roman democracy - which was never a democracy, but an oligarchy - the percentage of those who had power in society was bigger than it is today. For instance, in France the adult and voting population is about 35-37 million people. If the population gum up the so-called political class, the masters of economy, the people who really play an important role in manipulating the public opinion, especially by the media, we'll probably reach a total of about 3,700 people. This is a ratio of one to 10,000. And at the same time there are people criticizing ancient Athenian democracy because a free population of about 100,000 people had maybe at most 100,000 slaves. (Castoriadis, 2002) Two problems with democracy are that it doesn't weigh votes according to the magnitude of the voters' desires as well as, say, voting with moneyIn a democracy, the benefits to any given person of voting correctly become extremely small relative to the costs as the number of people voting increases. In a democracy with millions of people, voting correctly might require hours of research in exchange for a smaller chance …show more content…

Citizens could also register or update their registration online or at the polls, and registrations would move with a voter when they move within a state. The new Philippine Government is switching into a federal system with a national government strong enough to unify the states in their pursuit of common goals without completely robbing the states of their independence. If they had not done so, it is unlikely that the ratifying conventions in the several states would have approved the Constitution. Indeed, the inclusion of the federal principle in the Constitution was a critical factor in its ratification. The head of central government is limited in what they can do and many decisions are left to state governors, depending on the level of autonomy said states have. If some states are so dissatisfied with the central government, then they may even secede and this is exactly what happened during the American Civil

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