SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -You now know that the main feature of a democracy is that the people have the power to elect their leaders. So in a sense a democracy is rule by the people. The basic idea is that people rule themselves by participating in the making of these rules.

Detailed explanation-2: -The word democracy comes from the Greek words “demos", meaning people, and “kratos” meaning power; so democracy can be thought of as “power of the people": a way of governing which depends on the will of the people.

Detailed explanation-3: -Democracy as defined by Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the USA, is government of the people, for the people and by the people. Q. Who said “Democracy is the government of the people, for the people, by the people?"