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Modern Democracy has many origins. Ancient tribal councils among peoples in all parts of the world, early Greek and later Italian city-states; the Swiss, Icelandic, and Iroquois confederations; the evolution of English parliamentary procedure, early state and local governments in the American colonies, the American and French revolutions, and of course, the United States Constitution of 1789 and its amendments, all contributed threads to the richly varied fabric of modern democracy.
The shift from direct democracy to representative |
democracy based on written constitutions marks the beginning of those forms that we call "modern." However, the creation of representative democracy introduced structural problems that even today have not been sufficiently addressed in constitutional law. Because of those problems, authentic democracy did not immediately follow the formal introduction of democratic constitutions, and the very definition of "democracy" continues to be debated. Perhaps the best study on the evolution of democracy... Story cont... |
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