Fyron, your post is pretty non-helpful to the topic at hand. Yes of course by the strictest definition possible for the term democracy, few if any nations have ever had such a system. However the term has evolved over the years to encompass many similer forms of government. According to Webster's Online dictionary "Democracy" is defined as...
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Main Entry: de·moc·ra·cy
Pronunciation: di-'mä-kr&-sE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -cies
Etymology: Middle French democratie, from Late Latin democratia, from Greek dEmokratia, from dEmos + -kratia -cracy
Date: 1576
1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
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(I added the bold for emphasis)
This definition would fit any of the governments commonly referred to as democracies today. Refuting this is just arguing semantics instead of contributing to the point of the discussion at hand.
Geoschmo
[ May 12, 2003, 20:59: Message edited by: geoschmo ]