| dc.description.abstract | Historically, concept of democracy started from politic tradition in classic Greek
period which is firstly revealed by a famous philosopher, Plato. The content of democracy is
naturally effort to accommodate vote of people maximally. Concept of democracy, likes on
the United States of America and Western Europe, naturally is a liberalism that takes root
from liberalist thinker such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire and many
more. The concept glorifies people or citizenry as owner of actually sovereignty, which is
implemented by delegation system, along with liberty imposingly in economy field, which
create capitalism and colonialism.
Term of democracy, etymologically, comes from word „demos‟ that means people,
and „cratein‟ or „cratos‟ that means government. So, democracy means government by people
that is in the Declaration of Independence is of the people, for the people, and by the people.
Democracy is a government form that is better than absolute government, fascist, and other
forms that does not appreciate human values. | en_US |
