The American Thomas Jefferson was a representative agrarian who built Jeffersonian Democracy around the notion that farmers are “ the most valuable citizens ” and the truest republicans.

When Tennessee seceded from the Union in 1861, Johnson was a Democratic U. S. Senator from Tennessee and was dedicated to Jacksonian Democracy, nationalism and limited government.

National Alliance, launched in 1994, was officially founded in January 1995, when the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ), the former neo-fascist party, merged with conservative elements of the former Christian Democracy, which had disbanded in 1994 after two years of scandals and various splits due to corruption at its highest levels, exposed by the Mani Pulite investigation, and the Italian Liberal Party, disbanded in the same year.

The current President of Burundi is Pierre Nkurunziza, a former rebel leader of the Hutu National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy who was elected unopposed as the new President of Burundi by the parliament on 19 August 2005.

Democratic, Democratic Labour, and Radical were all mentioned as possible names for the new party, as well as New Labour ( which future Labour leader Tony Blair would use to promote the Labour Party more than a decade later ) but eventually Social Democratic was settled on because the ' Gang of Four ' consciously wanted to mould the philosophy and ideology of the new party on the Social Democracy practised on mainland Europe.

The constitution set out the establishment of a " Council for Social Democracy " ( CSD ) which was, in effect, the party's standing conference.

A paper published in the Journal of Democracy states this was the closest that the Cuban opposition could come to asserting itself decisively.

The conversion of the Conservative Party into a modern mass organisation was accelerated by the concept of Tory Democracy attributed to Lord Randolph Churchill, father of Britain's wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

As a result of intense internal debate, the national policy was one of becoming the Arsenal of Democracy, that is financing and equipping the Allied armies without sending American combat soldiers.

During the summer they recorded these songs for their final album, Bedtime for Democracy, which was released in November.

Under the Global and All-Inclusive Agreement, signed on 17 December 2002, in Pretoria, there was to be one President and four Vice-Presidents, one from the government, one from the Rally for Congolese Democracy, one from the MLC, and one from civil society.

The first war which involved the Djiboutian armed forces, was the Djiboutian Civil War between the Djiboutian government, supported by France, and the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ).

His goal was to make America the " Arsenal of Democracy " which would supply munitions to the Allies.

Madero's book was well received, and many people began to call Madero the Apostle of Democracy.

Between the restoration of democracy and the Greek government-debt crisis the party system was dominated by the liberal-conservative New Democracy ( Νέα Δημοκρατία – Nea Dimokratia ) and the social-democratic Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( Πανελλήνιο Σοσιαλιστικό Κίνημα – Panellinio Sosialistiko Kinima, ΠΑΣΟΚ / PASOK ).

Ríos Montt had been the candidate of the Christian Democracy Party in the 1974 presidential election and was widely regarded as having been denied his own victory through fraud.

In the March 2004 elections, PASOK was defeated by New Democracy, led by Kostas Karamanlis, the nephew of the former President.

The government called early elections in September 2007 ( normally, elections would have been held in March 2008 ), and New Democracy again was the majority party in the Parliament.

Following the May 2012 legislative election where the New Democracy party became the largest party in the Hellenic Parliament, Samaras, leader of ND, was asked by Greek President Karolos Papoulias to try to form a government.

The main event in the First Republic in the sixties was the inclusion of the Socialist party in the government, after the reducing edge of the Christian Democracy ( DC ) had forced them to accept this alliance ; attempts to incorporate the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ) in the Tambroni government led to riots, and were short-lived.

Polk was a leader of Jacksonian Democracy during the Second Party System.

The notion of a distinctive religious basis for American democracy and culture was first described and popularized by Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1840s, in his influential book, Democracy in America.

"(...) Without taking the argument that far, it is evident that in a market system with uneven distribution of empowering work, such as Economic Democracy ( the model of market socialism David Schweickart has developed and refers to as " economic democracy "), some workers will be more able than others to capture the benefits of economic gain.

In Democracy and Liberty, an essay published in 1998, Cohen reiterated many of these points, also emphasizing the concept of " reasonable pluralism " – the acceptance of different, incompatible worldviews and the importance of good faith deliberative efforts to ensure that as far as possible the holders of these views can live together on terms acceptable to all.

In 2000, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy has alleged that people of Han descent in Tibet have a far easier time acquiring the necessary permits to live in urban areas than ethnic Tibetans do.

Also, in his article " Democracy as a Universal Value ", Amartya Sen pointed out that no universal " Asian " value system could possibly exist, because the cultural diversity of Asia is far too great for there to be a single set of common values across the region.

In the same year Proletarian Democracy, a far left outfit, merged into the new party, which aimed to unite all Italian communists.

On the EU Constitution the Democracy Movement claims that far from being a ' tidying up exercise ' of existing treaties and powers as the government claims, the Constitution represents a fundamental change in the nature of the EU and a significant increase in the centralisation of decision-making power in Brussels.

He represented an empiricism which, so far from refuting, was actually based on, idealism, and yet was alert to expose the fallacies of a particular idealist construction ( see his essay in Ethical Democracy, edited by Stanton Coit ).

When much of the Italian far left formed the organisation Democrazia Proletaria ( Proletarian Democracy ) the LCR joined it as a recognised faction.

At the time of creation, DPNS was by far the largest party after National League for Democracy ( NLD ) and attracted many younger students, both from high schools and university, many of whom are members of ABSU.

As for the paid Hessians from other states, we are here to instruct the Indiana Democracy in their duty, I have nothing but contempt.

The involvement of Athens in the Ionian Revolt arose from a complex set of circumstances, beginning with the establishment of the Athenian Democracy in the late 6th century BC.

A People's Democracy poster from 1974

Agreements also were struck with rebels from the National Front of Chad ( FNT ) and Movement for Social Justice and Democracy in October 1997.

The current lower house — the Chamber of Deputies — contains 65 members of the governing coalition: 21 Christian Democrats ( PDC ), 15 Socialists ( PS ), 22 Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and seven Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 54 from the center-right Alliance for Chile ( APC ): 34 Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and 20 National Renewal ( RN ); and 1 from the Independent Regional Force ( FRI ) coalition: 1 Regionalist Action Party of Chile ( PAR ).

Following the elections in 2004, the former MEPs of the group took MEPs from the new member countries on board and together, they registered the new group Independence and Democracy ( IND / DEM ).

In 2004, 37 Members of the European Parliament ( MEPs ) from the UK, Poland, Denmark and Sweden founded a new European Parliament group called “ Independence and Democracy ” from the old Europe of Democracies and Diversities ( EDD ) group.

The ID group did reform, as the Europe of Freedom and Democracy ( EFD ) and is represented by 32 MEPs from nine countries.

In the 2000s Zimbabwe's economy began to deteriorate due to various factors, including mismanagement and corruption, the imposition of sanctions, such as among others the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001, following the switch from Willing Buyer, Willing Seller to Fast Track land reform.

June 1991, former Liberain army fighters formed rebel group United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy ( ULIMO ), entered western Liberia in September ’ 91, and gained territories from the NPFL.

After the PZPR was dissolved, Leszek Miller became a co-founder of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic ( till March 1993, he was Secretary General, then Deputy Chairman and, from December 1997, the Chairman of that party ).

On 26 March 2004, following the decision of the Speaker of the Parliament, Marek Borowski, to found a new dissenting party, the Social Democracy of Poland, Leszek Miller decided to resign from the position of Prime Minister on 2 May 2004, a day after Poland ’ s accession to the EU.

The Burma Freedom and Democracy Act ( BFDA ), passed by Congress and signed by the President in 2003, includes a ban on all imports from Burma, a ban on the export of financial services to Burma, a freeze on the assets of certain Burmese financial institutions, and extended visa restrictions on Burmese officials.

In 1987, the opposition parties who wanted to distance both from the Marcos & Aquino cliques formed the Grand Alliance for Democracy ( GAD ) headed by former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and Francisco Tatad.

In her book, Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia, she writes that " As for Hinduism, the hierarchical principles of the Brahmanical social order have always been contested from within Hindu society, suggesting that equality has been and continues to be both valued and practiced.

Islamic Socialist leaders believe in Democracy and deriving legitimacy from public mandate as opposed to religious texts.