Title: Democracy
Content:   Democracy (, dēmokratiā, from dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule' ) is a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation ("direct democracy"), or to choose governing officials to do so ("representative democracy"). Who is considered part of "the people" and how authority is shared among or delegated by the people has changed over time and at different rates in different countries, but over time more and more of a democratic country's inhabitants have generally been included. Cornerstones of democracy include freedom of assembly, association and speech, inclusiveness and equality, citizenship, consent of the governed, voting rights, freedom from unwarranted governmental deprivation of the right to life and liberty, and minority rights. 
Title: Democracy in America
Content:  In the book Democracy in America, the meaning of "democracy" is somewhat confusing, and its basic core meaning is the trend toward equality in all aspects of society. The benefits of democracy are obvious: "Democratic laws generally tend to promote the welfare of the greatest possible number; for they emanate from the majority of the citizens, who are subject to error, but who cannot have an interest opposed to their own advantage. The laws of an aristocracy tend, on the contrary, to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of the minority; because an aristocracy, by its very nature, constitutes a minority. It may therefore be 
Title: United States
Content:  unconstitutional. The United States is a federal republic of 50 states, a federal district, five territories and several uninhabited island possessions. It is the world's oldest surviving federation. It is a federal republic and a representative democracy "in which majority rule is tempered by minority rights protected by law." Since 2015, the U.S. has ranked 25th on the Democracy Index, and is described as a "flawed democracy". On Transparency International's 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index, its public sector position deteriorated from a score of 76 in 2015 to 69 in 2019. In the American federalist system, citizens are usually subject to three levels of government: federal, state, and local. The local government's duties 
Title: Democracy
Content:  notion of democracy has evolved over time considerably. The original form of democracy was a direct democracy. The most common form of democracy today is a representative democracy, where the people elect government officials to govern on their behalf such as in a parliamentary or presidential democracy. Prevalent day-to-day decision making of democracies is the majority rule, though other decision making approaches like supermajority and consensus have also been integral to democracies. They serve the crucial purpose of inclusiveness and broader legitimacy on sensitive issues—counterbalancing majoritarianism—and therefore mostly take precedence on a constitutional level. In the common variant of liberal democracy, the powers of the majority are exercised within the framework of a representative democracy, but the constitution 
Title: Democracy
Content:  The term republic has many different meanings, but today often refers to a representative democracy with an elected head of state, such as a president, serving for a limited term, in contrast to states with a hereditary monarch as a head of state, even if these states also are representative democracies with an elected or appointed head of government such as a prime minister. The Founding Fathers of the United States rarely praised and often criticised democracy, which in their view often came without the protection of a constitution enshrining inalienable rights; James Madison argued, especially in The Federalist No. 10, that what distinguished a 
Title: Democracy in America
Content:  The primary focus of Democracy in America is an analysis of why republican representative democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places. Tocqueville seeks to apply the functional aspects of democracy in the United States to what he sees as the failings of democracy in his native France. Tocqueville speculates on the future of democracy in the United States, discussing possible threats to democracy and possible dangers of democracy. These include his belief that democracy has a tendency to degenerate into "soft despotism" as well as the risk of developing a tyranny of the majority. He observes that the strong role religion played in the United States was due to its separation from the government, a separation all parties found agreeable. He contrasts this to France, where there was what he perceived to 
Title: Democracy in America
Content:  States the majority governs in the name of the people, as is the case in all the countries in which the people is supreme. Democracy in America, Book I, Ch IX" Such an ambiguous understanding of democracy in a study of great impact on political thought could not help leaving traces. We suppose that it was Tocqueville’s work and not least its title that strongly associated the notion of democracy with the American system and, ultimately, with representative government and universal suffrage. The recent ‘Tocqueville renaissance’, which enforces the democratic image of the United States and, correspondingly, of other Western countries, also speaks for the role of Tocqueville’s work." - Andranik Tangian (2020) Analytical Theory of Democracy, pp. 193-194
Title: Democracy in America
Content:  in the United States ; Chapter XI: Liberty of the Press in The United States. ; Chapter XII: Political Associations in The United States. ; Chapter XIII: Government of the Democracy in The United States. ; Chapter XIV: What are the Advantages which American Society Derives from a Democratic Government? ; Chapter XV: Unlimited Power of the Majority in The United States, and its Consequences. ; Chapter XVI: Causes which Mitigate the Tyranny of the Majority in The United States. ; Chapter XVII: Principal Causes which Serve to Maintain the Democratic Republic in The United States. ; Chapter XVIII: The Present and Probably Future Condition of the Three Races that Inhabit the Territory of The United States. 
Title: Democracy in America
Content:  property. (p.236) [7] Made up of minorities. [8] Although, however, it benefits them that there are two elections for the Senate. In the same way, he considers that, in a democracy, the government is known to be a “necessary evil” (p. 232) [9] However, he also acknowledges the "irritable patriotism" of the Americans. (p. 257). [10] Furthermore, he recognizes that a great privilege of Americans is to be able to repair their mistakes. [11] That they are nothing more than "the virtue introduced to the political world." (p. 258). [12] Of the greatest number of people of a certain sector or class.
Title: How Democratic Is the American Constitution?
Content:  How Democratic compares the 23 stable, wealthy democracies on these criteria, summarized as follows:

Question: what is the democracy of the united states?
Answer: federal republic.