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Democracy comes in various flavors. The one form that is considered to be unworkable is the raw form of democracy, or what is called Direct Democracy, but even Direct Democracy is democracy inserted in an undemocratic system. To have democracy there must be sovereignty. Giving slave the right to vote and imposing conditions and limitations on what the vote pertains to, is not the spirit of democracy. Yet, in every known example of democracy, the voter is given boundaries out of which he or she is not permitted to go. This is not democracy and this is why all known types of democracy are given suffixes.
By Robert BurkDemocracy comes in various flavors. The one form that is considered to be unworkable is the raw form of democracy, or what is called Direct Democracy, but even Direct Democracy is democracy inserted in an undemocratic system. To have democracy there must be sovereignty. Giving slave the right to vote and imposing conditions and limitations on what the vote pertains to, is not the spirit of democracy. Yet, in every known example of democracy, the voter is given boundaries out of which he or she is not permitted to go. This is not democracy and this is why all known types of democracy are given suffixes.