Raman's Classes Chapter 2.What is Democracy. Why Democracy? Day1.Period 1.Page 22-23. Topic : Why is Democracy. Terms Persons. Understandings Page 22. Overview. The stories and the analysis in the previous chapter gave us a sense of what democracy is like. There we described same governments as democratic and some as non democratic. We saw how governments in some of those countries changed from to the other. Let us now draw general lessons from those stories and ask the more basic question. What is democracy? What are its features ? This chapter builds on a simple definition of a democracy. Step by step we work out the meaning of the terms involved in this definition. The aim here is to understand clearly the bare minimum features of a democratic form of government. After going through this chapter we should be able to distinguish a democratic form of government from a nondemocratic government. Towards the end of the chapter, we step beyond this minima...
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