Mrs Grumble has been dipping into some dictionaries to check out the meaning of democracy.
Here’s one of the results:
Full Definition of DEMOCRACY
a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority
b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
And here’s another:
de·moc·ra·cy (dĭ-mŏk′rə-sē)
n. pl. de·moc·ra·cies1. Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
2. A political or social unit that has such a government.
3. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
4. Majority rule.
5. The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.
Then there’s the idea of one person, one vote.