Democracy is a system of governance where power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or through freely elected representatives. It relies on the mechanisms of regular elections, political competition, and the protection of individual rights. [formal: democratia | substrate: behavior | horizon: generations | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.10]
Accepted ontology entry
democracy
Democracy is a system of governance where power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or through freely elected representatives. It relies on the mechanisms of regular elections, political competition, and the protection o…
Definition
Why it is in scope
Democracy is a human-made system of governance based on the principle of popular sovereignty and the rule of law, structured to distribute power among the governed.
Names and aliases
- democracyen · CANONICAL
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Democracy requires the existence of sovereignty to function as a system of authority; without the concept of sovereign power, the mechanism of popular rule has no ground.
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Democratic governance derives from elections; elections formalize collective choice into institutional selection.
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Democracy depends on a constitutional framework; without constitutional constraints, majority rule can become tyranny.
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For whose sake? A civic engagement platform is built and maintained for the sake of democratic participation. The platform serves democracy's operation by enabling citizen-government interaction. This is a teleological relation, not a dependency — democracy doesn't need the platform, but the platform exists to serve democracy.
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- Jul 12, 2026, 3:21 AM UTC
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