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? 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 descr ....

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.... group of persons chosen by the people to act as their representatives. They are responsible for representing all the ideas and beliefs of the people they are representing. Indirect democracy is usually found in large areas like the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. A word closely associated with democracy is equality. The only way a for a government to be a true democracy, there must be certain kinds of equality in society. The four most well-known are equality of rights, suffrage, schooling, and justice. The equality of rights means that “all men are created equal”. This being true, all people have the same natural rights to life ....