Democracy

Democracy litterally means rule by the people. In an ideal democracy the people would come together, discuss common situations, and vote on how to act upon those situations. After voting, the solutions would be discussed until a consensus on a course of action had been reached. Most often however a democracy is a government where the people vote for a solution, and the will of the majority is thus carried out. This mostly comes from that fact that a direct democracy can only be achieved in small communities. In larger communities it takes longer to count votes, making the system ineffiecent. Most large communities restort to a represenative democracy, in which the people consent via ballot to the will of another, or others who they have deemed suited to handling the situations tasked by their position. As the population of a democracy grows factions develop, political parties, to help represent the diverse interest, and ideals of the people. This tends to cause conflict with in such a community, though the conflict is often mild, but not unknown to erupt into a conflict, or civil war.