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=Democracy Among The Nations (Countries)= //"Democracy is the government of the people, by the people and for the people."- Abraham Lincoln//

Definition Of Democracy:
//"1. Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people..."- Dictionary.com//

Athenian Democracy:
The population of Attica is 250,000 to 300,000. 100,000 of these people only adult male citizens are entitled to vote. Only adult males that have completed their military training as ephebes effectively eighteen years or older are aloud to vote. In this democracy if you are a male you are aloud to vote, women are not. In the Athenian Democracy, men have all power woman are not aloud to vote or have an opinion.

U.S Democracy:
The population of the U.S is 301,139,947. The U.S democracy allows males and females to vote if they are eighteen years or older. Although only 65% of women vote and 62% of men vote. In the U.S democracy women and men are aloud to vote not just male and not just female. In away the U.S democracy is in my view better then other countries. Once again my opinion because when you think about it if you were a woman living in another country and you couldn't vote or have rights, what would you do? How would you feel? I know I would feel useless and I wouldn't be able to do anything because woman in some countries are just there to cook, clean and take care of kids. There opinion doesn't matter but here in the U.S it does.

My Opinion:
See as some people say "I think the government should make it so women can't be elected to power because women will end up over throwing the men because there are more women then men." I say "Well it's not like women are just going to vote for women it all depends on your opinion and who you think is right to go into office or into the democracy." In the U.S democracy many people don't think women should be able to go into office, which could be right but then again we have never had a woman president so who's to say a woman president isn't OK or even a woman governor. This is my opinion and if you don't like it sorry but this is what I think and I'm not changing it. Anyway, when thinking about it democracy can be a good thing and also a bad thing. Democracy is power over people if someone was elected into power that had strong opinions about something but a lot of people disagreed it could be a bad thing. When thinking about the world right now and all the wars that are going on, its sad. Down in Darfur there is a war going on, a genocide against people from the same place. Democracy if its power over people shouldn't they be able to stop it? I mean this isn't exactly OK this whole genocide, I mean if we weren't in war with Iraq I wonder would we be helping the people down in Darfur? I would hope so. Anyway if we got rid of Democracy it wouldn't exactly be good, because when you think about it even though we the people are ruled by one group of people. If we didn't have a Democracy what would happen? We would probably end up in chaos. (Remember this is all My opinion) What would happen if everyone voted? I would think the turn out would be very weird. Democracy is power over the people, but also by the people. We have a democracy that is trying to be spread across the countries. When other countries don't need our help, many people think they do but that is up to them to ask us for our help, not ours.

The American Democracy Is Made Up Of Branches:
Local > Town Meetings (Selectman/Mayor) State> Executive (Governor) Federal> Executive (President)

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_Democracy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy http://www.darfurgenocide.org/ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Democracy http://evatt.labor.net.au/publications/papers/images/democracy.jpg http://www.st-edjohn.dudley.gov.uk/democracy.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fd/Athenian-constitution-aristotle.png