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Democracy is when citizens participate in voting and decision making. Democracy allows the people to have power and rule their country rather than the country and the government ruling them. The youth of democratic countries should be educated on the topic because big decisions affect their current education and their future.

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What is DEMOCRACY? How can we exercise it?

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Three words that I think of when I hear the word democracy:

1.) Government

2.) Justice

3.) Voting

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The growing threat to U.S. democracy will literally cost lives

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Decisions made by Donald Trump’s administration in its first 100 days will have impacts on people’s lives around the world.

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DEMOCRACY:

government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.

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Some words that describe the opposite of democracy are autocracy, dictatorship, and tyranny.

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If people felt that their democratic rights were being taken away, I feel that many protests would arise and this country would become chaos until the citizens felt that their rights were restored.