what is the literal meaning of democracy ?explain it with Abraham Lincoln statements in 3marks
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The democracy has been derived from two Greek words-Demos which means people and Kratos which means rule. So the democracy means rule of people.
Abraham Lincoln accordingly defined democracy as 'government of the people, for the people and of the people.'
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Democracy is a form of government that gives power to the people of the state to elect their own leader to lead them. Democracy has been literally defined as “a system of government as by the whole population.”
In the context of Abraham Lincoln who believed in a proposition that all men are created equally, democracy is not a form of government but a new birth of freedom. "He believed that the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "
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