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DEMOCRACY

The doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding the whole group. This idea opposes minority-rule, dictatorship, monarchism and imperialism.
 
The political orientation of those who favour government by the people or by their elected representatives. In representative democracies, the "old" minority-rule prevails. In the past, practical problems made ideal democracy, namely an ongoing referendum democracy, impossible. In the future digital age, every citizen of planet Earth may be able to "take seat" in the permanent virtual world parliament. Democracy will no longer be "two-stepped", but truly a majority-rule.

Representational democracy is a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them. This flaw cannot be eliminated if the masses are kept ignorant (hence the importance of free speech and education) and the infrastructure of e-government is not present.