Democracy is a political system in which all the members of the society have an equal share of formal political power. In modern representative democracy, this formal equality is embodied primarily in the right to vote. The history of democracy - the history of empowering people by giving them a say in their political entities - traces back from its origins in the ancient world to its re-emergence and rise from the 17th century to the present day.

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  • Democracy is a political system in which all the members of the society have an equal share of formal political power. In modern representative democracy, this formal equality is embodied primarily in the right to vote. The history of democracy - the history of empowering people by giving them a say in their political entities - traces back from its origins in the ancient world to its re-emergence and rise from the 17th century to the present day.
  • Las democracias modernas, como gobierno de la mayoría de la población, comenzaron a aparecer en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX junto con el sufragio universal, luego de la abolición generalizada de la esclavitud y la sanción de constituciones que reconocían los derechos humanos. Antecedentes
  • L'histoire de la démocratie remonte à l'Antiquité, avec une réémergence au XVII siècle jusqu'à nos jours.
  • 民主的歷史要追溯至史前的時期，以及民主在17世紀的重新出現，並不斷發展直至今日。
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  • John Markoff describes the advent of modern codified national constitutions as one of the milestones of democracy, and states that ''"The first European country to follow the U.S. example was Poland in 1791."''.
  • Literature about the Athenian democracy spans over centuries with the earliest works being the ''Republic'' of Plato and ''Politics'' of Aristotle, continuing with Discourses of Niccolò Machiavelli. The latest, listed in the References section, include works from scholars such as J. Dunn, J. Ober, T. Buckley, J. Thorley and E. W. Robinson, who examine the origins and the reasons of Athens being the firstDunn, 1994, p. 2 Thorley, 1996, p. 2 to developed a sophisticated system of rule that we today call democracy. Despite its flaws (slavery, no women's rights) it is often considered the closest to the ideal democracy and compared with modern (representative) democracies.
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  • Democracy is a political system in which all the members of the society have an equal share of formal political power. In modern representative democracy, this formal equality is embodied primarily in the right to vote. The history of democracy - the history of empowering people by giving them a say in their political entities - traces back from its origins in the ancient world to its re-emergence and rise from the 17th century to the present day.
  • Las democracias modernas, como gobierno de la mayoría de la población, comenzaron a aparecer en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX junto con el sufragio universal, luego de la abolición generalizada de la esclavitud y la sanción de constituciones que reconocían los derechos humanos. Antecedentes
  • L'histoire de la démocratie remonte à l'Antiquité, avec une réémergence au XVII siècle jusqu'à nos jours.
  • 民主的歷史要追溯至史前的時期，以及民主在17世紀的重新出現，並不斷發展直至今日。
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  • History of democracy
  • Historia de la democracia
  • Histoire de la démocratie
  • 民主的歷史
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