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Government and Politics Essay By Chris Armstrong What are the key features of a liberal democratic state? What are the key limitations of a liberal democracy? The whole innovation of "Democracy" was derived as far back as five hundred B.C in Athens. The term came from the Greek language, "demos" meaning people and "cracy" meaning power. It was created because of the failing current system being an aristocracy due to trading, new battle tactics and because people were starting to want to have there own say rather than let a noble claim it. With only fifty thousand people with citizenship it was more practical just to have a public assembly where everyone had the right to speak and no decision could be taken which did not meet with the approval of an majority. Sadly this government did not last because of the decline in the Greek civilisation. From then on Democracy was seen as an...

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