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, or democratic government, is a system of government in which all the people of a state or polity ... are involved in making decisions about its affairs, typically by voting to elect representatives to a parliament or similar assembly, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary.epresentative democracy is a form of democracy in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policy initiatives as opposed to a direct democracy, a form of democracy in which people vote on policy initiatives directly.