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.
The Acropolis of Athens by Leo von Klenze. A democracy is of political system, or a system of decision-making within an institution, or organization, in which all members have the equal share to power. Systems of democracy stand in contrast to other forms of government, including monarchy and oligarchy. Democracy can be traced back from the present day to classical Athens and Greeks in the 6th century B.C.E. In a modern representative democracy, this formal equality is embodied primarily in the right to vote.