COVER • CONTENTS • ORDER Personal UPDATE | NOVEMBER 2020
COVER ARTICLE
Ron Matsen President, Koinonia House
THE DOWNSIDE OF DEMOCRACY
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hroughout the history of man there have been two basic forms of public government: 1. Rule by the elite (monarchy, aristocracy, oligarchy) and 2. Rule by the people (democracy). The three basic forms of democracy are:
1. Direct democracy where the general public vote on every issue of law and governance, 2. Representative democracy (also known as Parliamentary democracy) where representatives are elected by the public and in turn vote on every issue of law and governance, and 3. Presidential democracy (also known as Authoritarian democracy) where an individual is elected by the public and in turn establishes every law and issues of governance. 6
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