A doze in the coach is the flower of dozes, when you are alone. Then he wakened out of his doze, and began questioning me who the gentlemen were. And so, after a while, exhausted from her efforts, she fell into a doze. Pardon my appearance, but I was startled out of a doze when you knocked.
Yet the theory of modern democracy was not formulated until the Age of Enlightment (17th/18th centuries), when philosophers defined the essential elements of democracy: separation of powers, basic civil rights / human rights, religious liberty and separation of church and state.
Democracy (Greek: Î´Î·Î¼Î¿ÎºÏÎ±ÏÎ¯Î±, dÄmokratÃ­a literally rule of the people), in modern usage, is a system of government in which the citizens exercise power directly or elect representatives from among themselves to form a governing body, such as a parliament. Democracy is sometimes referred to as rule of the majority. Democracy is a system of processing conflicts in which outcomes depend on what participants do, but no single force controls what occurs and its outcomes.