NOTES DEMOCRACY by Zachary Pattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb en-us 2020-10-22 00:41:24 UTC 2025-11-19 12:08:23 UTC hello@padlet.com A democracy means rule by the people. And the people get to make the decisions of the government zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/868263756 2020-10-28 03:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/868263756 In a democracy people can make decisions in their own government. And in the modern world there are different ways of doing this such as... zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/868272406 2020-10-28 03:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/868272406 1. The people meet to decide about laws and to change old ones this is called a direct democracy. zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/868276015 2020-10-28 03:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/868276015 2. The people elect there leaders. These leaders decide about laws. The process of this is call a representative democracy. zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/868281054 2020-10-28 03:46:54 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/868281054 these are just a few of the types of democracy zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/868291557 2020-10-28 03:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/868291557 A democracy is the opposite of a dictatorship, which is a government were 1 person rules over everything. In a dictatorship most freedoms of democracy such as votes or freedom of speech or expression. zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/871587459 2020-10-28 22:45:45 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/871587459 In democracy after a vote the party that wins chooses the candidate. zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/871605734 2020-10-28 22:58:00 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/871605734 Normally the people chosen as candidates have to have qualifications like a certain age. zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/871609577 2020-10-28 23:00:43 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/871609577 Not everyone can vote in a election only people 18 or over can vote in Australia. zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/871641421 2020-10-28 23:21:27 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/871641421 For some elections some countries make elections compulsory and not voting can be fined. zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/871643942 2020-10-28 23:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/871643942 Normally there are 2 main types of democracy. direct or indirect zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/871652402 2020-10-28 23:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/871652402 In a direct democracy everyone has the right to make laws together. a modern example of this is a referendum. This is the name of a country where everyone votes for a law or head of state like a Prime Minister. although democracy is the biggest current ideology because it is a inefficient way to run a government so not a lot of countries use it. zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/871657126 2020-10-28 23:31:43 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/871657126 In an indirect or representative democracy. People vote for representatives of them who vote in a council. These people can be mayors, councilmen, members of parliament or other government officials. This is much more common because it is easier. zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/871665498 2020-10-28 23:37:12 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/871665498 Democracy was originally developed by the ancient greeks in Athens. It was invented when everyone who was classified as a citizen( Not slaves women foreigners and children.) All of these people got together in an area. The people would talk about laws and they would vote on them with the people. tThe council would suggest laws and the citizens voted on them. zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/875164399 2020-10-29 23:35:05 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/875164399 The council was picked by draws. The participants in the council would change every year and the max number of people in this council was 500. For some votes the people would write their favourite candidate on a piece of wood or stone. these were counted and the person with the most votes was elected. zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/875172734 2020-10-29 23:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/875172734 In the middle ages there were multiple types of democracy. But unlike the greeks only a few nobles and selected people could vote as monarchy was still the main ideology at this time. zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/875179735 2020-10-29 23:45:32 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/875179735 The first parliament was in England, it was formed by he Magna Carta, A document that made the kings power limited, this document also protected some peoples rights. The first parliament was the De Montfort's Parliament in England in 1265. zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/875182199 2020-10-29 23:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/875182199 Still though not everyone could join in parliaments and elections. only around 3 percent of people could vote tough. However slowly but surely Parliament grew and grew. after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 increased parliaments power. Eventually the monarch became more of a symbol instead of a government. zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/875186488 2020-10-29 23:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/875186488 Democratic consolidation is the process when a democracy matures. this makes a democratic country to become a dictatorship without big internal shock zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/875193336 2020-10-29 23:54:19 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/875193336 This means once a country becomes a democracy its hard to stop being a democracy zacharypattison https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/875195628 2020-10-29 23:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/zacharypattison/8cbi9rgjwj3f5mbb/wish/875195628