Why should we emphasis so much the major values of democracy?

Question

How is that doing so citizens are nurturing democracy?

Answer 1

In the Federalist Paper, No. 10, The author continues a discussion of the question broached in Hamilton's Federalist No. 9. Hamilton there addressed the destructive role of faction in breaking apart the republic. The question Madison answers, then, is how to eliminate the negative effects of faction. He defines a faction as "a number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community." He identifies the most serious source of faction to be the diversity of opinion in political life which leads to dispute over fundamental issues such as what regime or religion should be preferred. However, he thinks "the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society." He saw direct democracy as a danger to individual rights and advocated a representative democracy (also called a republic) in order to protect what he viewed as individual liberty from majority rule, or from the effects of such inequality within society. He says, "A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party. Hence it is, that democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

A shorter answer... It's not democracy that should be emphasized, it's Liberty.  And you can't force liberty upon any person, it must be realized on their own.  The only power a leader of any country has over it's people, is the power it's people give to that leader.

If this is true, and I certain beyond all doubt that it is, then we should never engage in any war at the risk of our own men and women in order to free people who have not expressly invited such a thing.  It only allows them to be more susceptible to failure.

Answer 2

Democracy... Maybe you should see what needs to be done no more fat-cat politicans saying that you should vote for me! Why elect a 'president' if he really doesn't hold all the power and can only run for (at the longest) 8 years? Workers of the world UNITE! Communism is right and just trust your government why elect so many times just shows how much you don't like your government and you don't trust them.