Representative Democracy Vs Medieval European Feudalism

Would you rather live in a place with a representative democracy or medieval European feudalism as the government? According to the dictionary a democracy is “a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state”.In a representative democracy the people elect other people to vote for them in the government. According to the World history social studies textbook, feudalism is “a strict social system in which land owner’s grant people land or other rewards in exchange for military service or labor”. In medieval Europe the levels of feudalism are king, lords, knights, peasants and serfs. A representative democracy is a better form of government than that of medieval European feudalism because the medieval system

This means that all of the power and decisions were resting on the king. In a representative democracy there is not a single ruler, and the people have power as well as the rulers. This is better than one single ruler because the people know what’s going on and help decide if certain laws are passed. In medieval Europe most of the people were bound or tied to the land. These people were called serfs. Serfs could not leave the land unless they got permission from the lord. In a representative democracy the people are not bound to the land, so the can move in and out of the country as they wish. It is better to be able to move in and out of the country than to be tied to it because in in the case of attack the people can move in and out of the country. However if the people are bound to the land in the case of attack then they can’t leave the land unless the ruler tells them other wise. Even though serfs were not technically slaves, meaning that they couldn’t be sold like objects, they had a lot in common with slaves. While the serfs could not be sold, they were not free. Serfs were forced to work on the land, like slaves, except serfs worked in exchange for protection. A representative democracy would not have serfs because in today’s society people look down on the idea of