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 is âthe substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.â (G.B. âDemocracy is âgovernment by the people; that form of government in which the sovereign power resides in the people as a whole, and is exercised either directly by them . Democracy is âa state where political decisions are taken by and with the consent, or the active participation even, of the majority of the People.