PROTECTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF DEMOCRACY
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WHAT IS DEMOCRACY?
Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic.
Absolute power lies in the hand of people to elect their representative in the government who is the president to make decisions and set laws for governance. Majority rule democracy, the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group like parliamentary body who represent the majority in governance.

ANTI DEMOCRACY
This is against democracy in the sense that anti democracy is the opposed action of the power which to elect their representative president and these include;
• Oligarchy: a political system governed by a few people who are self interest and dictators and such cases are due to improper acquiring of power like coup d’état which is the suppression of the constitution and seizing power by means of force.
• Fascism: a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism). This favours dictatorship or only one person making decisions on behalf a nations without interferences, advice or involvement.
• Absolutism: Absoluteness, arbitrariness, despotism, tyranny, autocracy, personal government, Caesarism.
• Arbitrariness: Despotism, absoluteness, absolutism, tyranny, autocracy.
• Capriciousness, wilfulness, absence of principle, unreasonableness.
• Despotism: A government which is directed by a despot; a despotic monarchy; absolutism; autocracy.
• tyranny: 1. Despotism, absolutism, dictatorship, arbitrary power, despotic rule, autocracy.
• Oppression, iron rule, reign of terror, cruel government.

CONSTITUTION
Constitution: The fundamental, organic law or principles of government of men, embodied in written documents, or implied in the institutions and usages of the country or society; also, a written instrument embodying such organic law, and laying down fundamental rules and principles for the conduct of affairs.
Constitution is written By the law makers or the parliament who make laws to express command and control to the affairs of a state jurisdictions.
Law is a rule (prescribed by authority), regulation, statute, enactment, decree, ordinance, edict, order, canon, expressed command.
• 2. Formula, principle, form.
• 3. Code, body of rules.
Polity: The form or constitution of the civil government of a nation or state; the framework or organization by which the various departments of government are combined into a systematic whole.
Reconstruction: The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of re-establishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War.

SUSTAINABLE DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT
Developments of democracy can sustained under a favourable consideration of the construction enforcement of the constitution and the involvement and engagement of the people in awareness as for sensitization and security. These laws must be favourable to the public and punishments for crimes must not be harsh as to examples like the abolishment of death penalties or reduction commercial bank interest and reduction of import duty.

DEMOCRACY VERSUS AUTOCRATIC
Democracy is rule which advantageously avoid political conflict because it allow public decisions while autocracy is side-lining the people because the theory says that the interference of public in governance causes high retardation of rule implementation.

While autocracy do not allow public interferences in governance, it causes mistrust which leads to conflicts that cause civil wars or natural fragmentation of the people, democracy is highly accepted and practised for its transparency and advocacy.

REPUBLIC
A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth.

SOVEREIGNTY
The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence;. This is that absolute power lies in the hands of a nation to make decisions such that no other nation or influence can change such decisions. Democratic legitimacy which is the legal nature of the country’s democracy depends on its sovereignty and boundary, how? The voting rights at stake of foreign mixture and the electoral crises of alien intervention in general electoral process has in sense that sovereignty and boundary are key elements in Democratic legitimacy.