| I saw there were some conceptual confusions between two seperate types of government in this thread.
Popular government is about giving power to the majority of the people for the sake of empowering the majority. It is commonly mistaken for the entity called democracy. It tends to be fairly linear, sometimes not even having a constitution. It really only 'works' in small communities, and sometimes not even there. Making the majority stronger is the aim of popular government.
Democracy is about distributing power so that individuals can be equal in social status, aka, it tries to eliminate formal hierarchies. It tends to be more complex than popular government, with many checks and balances between various facets of society. Equality is the aim of democracy, and empowering the majority is just a consequence of that ... however, democracy inhibits the majority in ways a popular government does not.
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If you want to respect the will of others, recommend, but do not command, request, but do not demand, and be thankful, never ungrateful.
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