Democracy and its key features - What is Democracy? Why Democracy?, Class 9 SST Civics Video Lecture

hello and welcome to ADA PD awhile calm
today we'll study democracy what is
democracy and by Democrats the word
democracy is actually a Greek word which
consists of two words demos and reduce
the most stands for people and trade
those means power or rule democracy is a
form of government in which we elect our
rulers means we elect the person the
leaders whom we want to be ruled by as
Abraham Lincoln said that democracy is a
comment of the people by the people and
for the people which is very true in
democracy we the people choose our
leaders and these leaders finally take
this ism of the leader who will be
making power democracy must be based on
a free and fair election where the
person who is being elected has the
power of a pair chance of losing or
winning main
we have all rights that we want the
person to continue to be our leader or
not in democracy each in every adult
citizen adult citizen means the person
who has attained the age of 18 years
must have one vote right whether it's a
boy or a girl it's a poor or rich and
each must each vote must have one value
a democratic government rules within
limits set by the constitutional law and
citizens right means the government have
to have to obey the rules the laws set
by the Constitution which is written by
our leaders the opposition parties are
allowed to function freely either it's
before election or after the election
because it's not necessary that the
party which is sitting in opposition
today is not able to be the ruling party
tomorrow if maybe it could be happen the
democratic governments are based on
fundamental principles of political
equality
now we'll learn the merits of democracy
a democratic government it's a better
government because it is more
accountable form of government it
improves the quality of decision making
means the final decision will be of them
who if who are in majority it provides a
method to deal with the differences and
conflicts the differences could be of
language the differences could be of
religions and cultures that's why we
call its unity diversity
and for a country like India the
democracy has made it possible to keep
this unity alive in democracy no leader
is a permanent no party is a permanent
winner or loser maybe the party the
person who is ruling today him here she
may lose tomorrow if this all depends on
our voting democracy is better than any
other forms of government because it
allows us it allows us the people to
correct our own mistakes means if we are
not happy with the person with the party
whom we elected this election we can
overthrown them in the fix next election
we are very much free to change our
decision in the next election
democracy enhances the dignity of
citizens because it is based on the
principles of political equality all
recognizing that the poorest and least
educated have the same status as the
rich and educated like I earlier said
political equality doesn't seem whether
you are a boy or a girl
you are a rich or a poor it means one
person one vote which is countable
now the demerits all we can say the
drawbacks of democracy as if we can have
two faces merits and demerits are the
two parallel characteristic of anything
in democracy latest keep changing which
leads to instability because these
leaders are being elected by those
leaders whom we elect from our
constituency it is all about political
competition and power play there is no
scope for morality elected leaders do
not note the best interest of the people
it leads to bad decisions sometimes
democracy leads to corruption for it is
based on electoral competition means
nowadays we are seeing that the person
who gets the ticket from a particular
party has started distributing money
hell started distributing other things
just to lure the people just to get
their votes and once he gets elected he
forgets each and every promise he has
made ordinary people don't know what is
good for them they should not decide
anything
s let's the poor people in case of them
they just leave the basic things for
fulfilling their requirements
sometimes these leaders take advantage
they will provide them their needed
things and they want their precious wood
so those people who don't know them they
go and work for them
for just those things thank you