Democracy Through Time
Democracy as a concept has changed and evolved through the years. Lao-Tzu, a Chinese philosopher, advised a form of government that had many democratic values to his emperor. His work, Tao-te Ching, was written in the sixth century B.C. before the term democracy was even coined. Some time later, in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., the Greeks gave this idea a name and put it into effect. In the work The Origin of Civil Society (1762) Jean-Jacques Rousseau argues for peoples basic rights, and dabbles on the topic of people governing themselves, which is in essence democracy. Thomas Jefferson, a man that borrowed profusely from Rousseau, also wrote a work that heavily favored the basic right of democracy. His influential work is our very own Declaration of Independence (1776).
The idea of democracy is a timeless one. Before the term for democracy was given, the notion that people are better off governing themselves for the benefit of society as......
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