GEOG 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Daniel Arap Moi, Tarja Halonen, Pratibha Patil

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Geographical Sciences
• Course: GEOG 130
• Professor: Luna

Document Summary

Democracy- has been practiced by people throughout the world to varying degrees. The word democracy derives from two greek words: demos: meaning people, kratia: meaning rule. Democracy is a system of government in which the majority of the people rule but the rights of the minority are protected. Case study- latin america: lati(cid:374) a(cid:373)e(cid:396)i(cid:272)a has e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)ed (cid:373)o(cid:396)e politi(cid:272)al (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ges tha(cid:374) af(cid:396)i(cid:272)a a(cid:374)d asia, bet(cid:449)ee(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1011)(cid:1012)-1993 fifteen countries made the transition from dictatorships and authoritarianism to democracy, lati(cid:374) a(cid:373)e(cid:396)i(cid:272)a has a histo(cid:396)(cid:455) of (cid:449)eak politi(cid:272)al i(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374)s. The dominican republic was a colony of spain until 1795, then a colony of france and later a colony of haiti until 1844, when it became independent, but was still invaded by. Haiti in several occasions (1844, 1845-49, 1849-55, and 1855-56). The first constitution of the dominican republic was written in 1844: it had 211 articles that defined the country as a republic following the democratic ideals of the united.