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CBSE - Civics - What is Democracy? Why Democracy?

What is Democracy? Why Democracy?

NCERT In Text

One person, one vote, One value

• There are many instances of denial of equal right to vote.

→In Saudi Arabia women do not have the right to vote.

→ Estonia has made its citizenship rules in such a way that people belonging to Russian minority find it difficult to get the right to vote.

→ In Fiji, the electoral system is such that the vote of an indigenous Fiji has more value than that of an Indian-Fijian.

• In a democracy, each adult citizen must have one vote and each vote must have one value.

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