You two are very weak on terms, did you know that? Here, this will help.
Democracy describes a political system in which the political power resides with the people who live and make up a particular state or community rather than with one particular man or a small group of men.
• The word 'democracy' is derived from two Greek words, demos (meaning people) and kratos (meaning power) and hence the term literally means 'government by the people.' Democratic governments vary from society to society and are relative whereby the people will have more influence over the government in one society than in another society.
• .This relativity can be placed into two categories, direct and indirect democracy. In direct democracy all people have a say in how the government is run, with everyone having a vote on every issue which concerns them. In practice this form of democracy is run via public meetings where an issue, such as whether or not cannabis should be legalized is raised, and everyone votes (equally), via raising hands for example. With indirect democracy the people do not have a vote on every issue but instead elect a set of people who will govern the country and deal with the decision-making process. Through this process the people would not have a say on whether cannabis should be legalized but instead the people they elected will vote on it.
• Today democracy is a very popular idea and one which people of all ideologies (including conservatives, republicans, nationalists, marxists and anarchists) all seem to support. The modern and popularly excepted form of democracy is liberal democracy. This form follows the model of indirect democracy with the liberal touch of universal suffrage for both men and women, freedom of the media and elections on a routine basis.