Give any two characteristics of democracy.

The following characteristics of democracy are:

• Democracy means the rule of people. It means a representative is directly or indirectly elected by people rules the democratic country.


• Each adult whose age is above 18 years ago irrespective of caste, religion, gender or any other discrimination cast one vote which has equal value.


• The elections should be held regularly (i.e. after a fixed period of time), freely and fairly.


• All the political parties and citizens have freedom of speech and expression.


• A representative of the country which is elected by people should take a decision within the limit of constitutional laws and citizens’ right (i.e. rule of law).


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