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"all members of the society (citizens) have equal access to power" and "all members (citizens) enjoy universally recognized freedoms and liberties."

Would that not mean that there are no Democracies? Because I havn't heard of any where children can be elected to government and most so called democracies children don't have universally recognized freedoms. Also democracies with elections cannot exist because the wealthy will always rule because of the power, influence and resources they have, therefore not all members of the society have equal acess to power.

United States SHALL BE RED, NOT BLUE

http://www.thisnation.com/question/011.html

Clearly states that United States gives off the allusion of a democracy, because other countries and Wikipedians want to brainwash you braindead Americans into thinking we're one. Not not even capitalist, we're socialist capitalist now like Australia under Kevin Rudd admission.

Merger proposal

I propose that Varieties of democracy be merged with Democracy. I've tagged both articles accordingly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.105.246.237 (talk) 11:30, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ANCIENT ROME

According to this article Rome was not a democracy because it did not let women and slaves vote, but Greece was a democracy but they also did not let women and slaves vote. That is hypricritical. This is what the Greeks and Romans viewed as democratic - men voting. They believed they were democratic. We are applying modern definitions to democracy when we talk about them being democratic or not. But they did not live in the modern world, so why should a modern definition be applied. Also Rome was a Republic. A Republic is probally the most democratic form of a democracy. Hint hint nudge nudge