Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on democracy. The high value is placed on the equality of individuals and the freedom of the people. Dictatorship is the opposite to democracy form of

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on democracy. The high value is placed on the equality of individuals and the freedom of the people.

Dictatorship is the opposite to democracy form of government when one person has the absolute power over the nation. Dictators use force to gain the power and keep it through terror and suppression of civil liberties. Today, open dictatorship does not exist but the hidden forms are still found: when the power is maintained through the fraud or the control of the mass media. For example, Latin America has a long history of dictatorship when the leaders gained power through the military and provided social privileges only to the elite class representatives.

Citizenship is the relationship between the individual and the state when the individuals owe loyalty to the state and in return, they receive the protection, freedom and rights. For example, political rights include the right to vote and the right to hold public office. Citizenship is about obligations (taxes, military service). Citizenship has been granted only to property owners in Greece and has been withheld from conquered peoples in the Roman Empire. Today citizenship is granted by birth within the territory of the country, as the descent from a parent or by marriage to the citizen of the particular state.

The state is the term used to indicate the nation or the country, as well as the legal government of a territory, people and culture. The state has several characteristics such as the independent government, legal system, constitution, national symbols, language and distinct culture. The state also possesses the specific territory of land and has clear borders. Each state has the freedom to develop their own political system and laws that do not contradict the international agreements and principles.

Politics is the process of making the decision by the group of people. it is the behaviour of the society representatives within the government.&nbsp. &nbsp.