Definition of democracy

PURPOSE: To clarify our definition of democracy

PRODUCT: A comparison and discussion of two or more different definitions of democracy.

TASKS:

(1) Post your personal definition of “democracy” below. Don’t look the word up in a dictionary or the Internet unless you have to! We want to know what you think, and not what whoever wrote the dictionary thinks!

(2) Then, compare your definition to the following:

(3) Which of the definitions is better? Write and post a short paragraph below describing (a) the ways the definitions are different and (b) why the one you prefer is better.