Essay On Evolution Of Democracy

One more important milestone of the history of democracy and the profound of the representative government was the creating of English Parliament during the Middle Ages. The first purpose of the Parliament was to discuss and fix grievances for the judicial functions. Through the years the involved in more important matters of the state and be part of the decision process of the state, by the end of 15th century the political systems start display some of the characterises of the modern parliamentary government such as the creation and establish of laws required to be approved from the houses of Parliament and the monarch. More over during the English Civil War and after the Levelers and the radical Puritnas demanded to be representative in Parliament and the appointment of a prime minister, by given more power to the House of Commons. But still the British government cannot have characterised us a democratic system because not all the male population could suffrage until the acts of

For Montesquieu the classification of Aristotle’s was not correct. He defines three perfect forms of government, monarchy where one person governs by specific laws, despotism where one person governs by his own will, and at last the republic that can be a democracy or aristocracy dependent on where the power is centralized in the body or specific number of people. He believed that in order to exist a republic government, democracy or aristocracy, the people that they govern must be driven from the public goof and acting for the public interest, “public virtue”. He mentions that without strong feeling of the public virtual a republic is easy to be destroyed by the factions, that they act for the own