What is democracy? Can it be defined within a sole phrase or idea? Does it remain constant throughout a culture and people? Is it fluid, and it's ideals forever molding to a set of beliefs and morals?
These are all questions prompted by a multitude of views of what democracy is, and we can recognize that democracy is not the United State's constitutional structure of government or the governmental basis that Germany stands upon, or even the system under the nation of India. It is all of those things, yet definitively not excluded to a single ruling system. The idea of democracy should be viewed from all angles, or 360 degrees.
One of the perspectives that democracy stands upon is the United State's system of checks and balances and constitutional engagement, in a government for the people and by the people.
Another mold of democracy is Germany, where we do see a varied spin of a democratic model, in a more complicated system. In Germany we recognize a multitude of parties and a system of engagement in a more "intricate" democratic manner.
We also see a varied view of democracy within the crisis of the Middle East. We continually recognize a call for democracy, yet we fail to recognize what many middle easterners view as democracy is radically different from our view of a democratic foundation. They may view it as a system of liberation but not the constitutional system of a separation of powers. An example of this altered view is Nazi Germany, even Hitler believed he was under a democracy.
As we can see, democracy is a fluid ideal and not isolated under one model of a political foundation. We truly do have to look at it from 360 degrees.
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