The values of democracy

Nowadays everybody knows that democracy is a form of government in which

the people has the power. The original Greek term supports this statement: it means
the power of people, or the rule of people. So this is the value that democracy is
based on or at least, it should be. After the fall of the communism in states which had
been affected by World War II, many of them decided to apply democratic regimes, and
so they did, and now they are making steps to a real and complete democracy, following
the model of developed states.
Democracy has evolved as a solution people brought to their dissatisfaction
against other regimes that concentrated all the power in the hands of a single person or
group of people. Therefore, democracy comes with a better way to administrate a
country. The power is shared between three institutions the president who, along with
the government, have the executive power, the courts of law, which represent the
judicial power, and the parliament the legislative power. These institutions must
cooperate in order to make the state function well on all plans. Their decisions must be
made in the name of the citizens, in their benefit.
We now arrive at a second rule that the democracy imposes the people who
are at the head of a country are elected by its people. Everyone with an age higher than
18 years has the right to vote, and the majority decides. In each state there are parties
which fight between them to gain peoples admiration and confidence and to arrive at
power so we have two types of parties, the ones who are at power and the ones who
are in opposition. A democratic state needs them both, as a situation can suddenly
change and the people must have more choices between which they can choose. This
is how people have the power they choose their representatives and they keep them
or not according to how good they work.
In a democratic state all people are equal in dignity and rights, but also before
law - the justice is independent and impartial. All citizens must respect the law and all
citizens rights must be respected.
Freedom is one of the strongest values of a democratic regime. People have
freedom of opinion and belief, freedom of expression, freedom to participate in the
political life of their country, freedom to have a private life and intimacy, freedom to own
a specific property exclusively and absolutely, free access to information and so on.
I believe that we should make sure democracy further evolves all over the world,
as it is the healthiest regime for everyone. We must learn from history and raise our
children to think democratically, to always stand for their rights and freedom, but also to
Alexa Emilia Theodora
Clasa a XII-a C
Colegiul National Mihai Eminescu

always respect the law, if we want to avoid devolving to what we were before and being
ruled again by people who thirst for power and dont respect their peoples.

Alexa Emilia Theodora

Clasa a XII-a C
Colegiul National Mihai Eminescu