We Need A Democratic Government

Why Do We Need a Democratic Government

The research of the reasons for government’s formation got me thinking, that democracy is the only form of government which effectively reflects, in its ruling system, the needs of social majority and respects all opinions of social minorities. Therefore, now, democracy is the crucial point of social development, and is the final stage of evolution. Democracy is the system which still needs further development and requires more attention in its structural consistency. Democratic system of rule has changed over time, its definition became closer to the intended meaning laid in the word’s structure; the combination of two greek words: demos(the people) and kratia(power, rule) has formed the word democracy,

is a widely known activist and a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. King was assassinated on April 4 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee when he was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C. The “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was written by him in prison in 1963, when King was arrested for leading a nonviolent protest against unfair hiring practices in Birmingham. This letter is considered to be a “classic text on civil rights” (Why We Can’t Wait 163). This letter and many other works and speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. had a major influence on the American public life, and determined many principles on which a democratic government must stand.

In the “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism; he argues about human’s moral responsibility to determine the just and unjust laws, and thereby says that all unjust laws have to be broken. He reminds humanity of people’s God-given and constitutional rights, argues about equality of all and social liberties promised by the Founding Fathers, urges society to enact the social justice for all, regardless of

The Declaration of Independence was signed on the Second Continental Congress on July 4 1776, and it announced that the thirteen American colonies are now independent and no longer under British rule. The argument made by Jefferson stated that “all men are created equal,” and that they have certain natural “unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”(The Declaration of Independence 1). The Declaration’s main ideas determined a principles on which a new-born American government would stand, and its passages also explained why States decided to abolish the British