Question

E Short answer type questions:
1. What is democracy?
2. How did Abraham Lincoln define democracy?
3. How old is monarchy?
4. What happened in French Revolution?
5. What are the two types of democracy?
6. What is Universal Adult Franchise?
7. What is dictatorship?
8. What is equality?
9. What do you understand by freedom?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. A system in which the government of a country is elected by the people.

2. Democracy as defined by Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the USA, is government of the people for the people and by the people. This presupposes that: ... That is, the interest of the people should superintend over even that of government officials.

3. The British monarchy traces its origins from the petty kingdoms of early medieval Scotland and Anglo-Saxon England, which consolidated into the kingdoms of England and Scotland by the 10th century.

4. The French Revolution was a period of time in France when the people overthrew the monarchy and took control of the government. When did it take place? ... The revolution came to an end 1799 when a general named Napoleon overthrew the revolutionary government and established the French Consulate (with Napoleon as leader).

5. Democracies fall into two basic categories, direct and representative. In a direct democracy, citizens, without the intermediary of elected or appointed officials, can participate in making public decisions.

6. Universal suffrage (also called universal franchise, general suffrage, and common suffrage of the common man) gives the right to vote to all adult citizens, regardless of wealth, income, gender, social status, race, ethnicity, or any other restriction, subject only to relatively minor exceptions.

7. A dictatorship is a government or a social situation where one person makes all the rules and decisions without input from anyone else. Dictatorship implies absolute power — one person who takes control — of a political situation, a family, a classroom or even a camping expedition.

8. The situation in which everyone has the same rights and advantages.

9. Freedom, generally, is having the ability to act or change without constraint. Something is "free" if it can change easily and is not constrained in its present state. ... A person has the freedom to do things that will not, in theory or in practice, be prevented by other forces.