- government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected representatives (in Canada, Members of Parliament(MP's) or in B.C., Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA's))
- a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges.
We tend to take this form of government for granted, since we have always lived under it. Throughout much of history, and in certain places in the world today, though, many people did NOT get the chance to voice their preferences for government or have much real power in how
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