The venerated Fathers of the Nation, who in the summer of 1787 assembled in Philadelphia to write a constitution (ratified in 1789) actually assumed that the United States could not become a pure ...

actually assumed that the United States could not become a pure democracy. Just how democratic the nation should be was during this revolutionary era a deeply controversial issue, and it remains ...

Were there demonstrations and protests in ancient Greece and if so, how did people get the chance to participate?

Those who like to call America a republic often pretend that we are such because we’re not a “direct democracy” (aka a “pure democracy”). A direct democracy is a system in which the ...

Nowhere in the Constitution does it use the word ‘democracy.’ I think of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. That’s not us.” Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, posted last week: ...

The party once championed democracy; now, it cowers before authoritarianism ... the middle and working classes are seen to be pure political posturing. His voters will see that his programs ...

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi today (17 March) alleged that the interim government advisers are trying to create a division between the anti-fascist movement and the recent July ...

Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous ... And if it wasn’t for this pure blood, this country would not have been liberated. The enemy is still in five locations.