POLSCI 3Y03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Neoliberalism, Direct Democracy, Representative Democracy
21 Apr 2020
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Democracy and human rights: contradictions, complementary, and overlap. Origins of democracy: an old concept and an old practice. Some general views on democracy: common attribute reference to greece they had 2 sears, politics only belong to elites, aristotle, only thing i know is nothing (great philo socrates) American people but electoral collage: we are still embedded into the idea people should not have a important role in a political decisions. How do you apply to canada and england: parliament called commons, senate not elected (same as house of lords, canadian senate, place where reason peavey. Practiced for only a short time in greece, and only recently in western europe. Still a contested term (though not the desire for it) Common meaning as government of the people (athens) Declaration of independence (1776): we the people governments are instituted among men and they derive their power from the consent of the governed .
