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What is democrasy ?                  Democrasy is a form of goverment in which the rulers are elected by the people. Throughout our lives we are members of different groups or associations, from families, neighbourhood, clubs and work-units to nations and states. In all such associations, from the smallest to the largest, decisions have to be taken for the association as a whole: about the goals to be pursued, about the rules to be followed, about the distribution of responsibilities and benefits between members. These can be called collective decisions, in contrast to individual decisions taken by people on behalf of themselves alone. Democrasy belongs to this sphere of collective decision-making. It embodies the idea that such decisions, affecting an association as a whole, should be taken by all its members, and that they should each have equal rights to take part in such decisions. Democrasy, in other words, entails the twin principles ...