Democracy (Greek demos,"the people"; kratein, "to rule"), political system in which the people of a country rule through any form of government they choose to establish. In modern democracies, supreme authority is exercised for the most part by representatives elected by popular suffrage. The representatives may be supplanted by the electorate according to the legal procedures of recall and referendum, and they are, at least in principle, responsible to the electorate. In many democracies, …
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…states. Tilly disagrees. * The arrival of effective artillery came too late to cause an increase in the viable size of the state. * Bean's logic compliments Lane's logic in that more costly varieties of military organization drove an increase in princely budgets, taxes, and staffs. * We shouldn't forget that territory is also applied to the maritime states, which until the 18th century were the greatest powers. Bias toward the sea occurred because land transportation was