Democracy

Democracy is a system of government where people are the source of all power. It is the government of the people where everybody can share in political arena. They can elect their representative and help them to from government. On the contrary, they can also reject them of they feel it necessary. Here people can enjoy almost all the civic rights and privileges. They have freedom of speech. They can expose their views through different mass media like radio, television, newspaper, besides, equality, justice and accountability are some important merits of this defects in democracy. Here important is put not on the quality but on the number. However, democracy is now regarded to be the best system of government. But to have the taste of this best system, some conditions must be fulfilled. The most important condition for the success of democracy is universal education. According to john start Mill - “universal education must precede universal suffrage.” On the other hand, equality in every sphere of life, tolerance, brotherhood etc. are vital conditions for successful democracy. In fact, democracy is a system of government in which every citizen has a share.