Part one of term paper
? Is democracy the best form of government? President Lincoln thought so in his 1863 Gettysburg Address where he defined the kind of society he wanted the United States to preserve: “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” Lincoln was describing an ideal form of government which did not exist at that time. It was base ...

Part two of term paper
... control of it’s own affairs. Democracy is broken up into either direct or indirect (representative). Direct democracy is the idea that people will govern themselves in mass meetings. This can only work if you have a very small community where the problems of government are relatively few and simple. On the other hand representative democracy is a small group of persons chosen by the people to act as their representatives. They are responsible for representing all the ideas and beliefs of the ...