Basic Principles of Democracy

The United States of America has five basic principles which ensure the ability of the country. The basic foundations: fundamental worth, equality of all persons, majority rule minority rights, necessity of compromise, and ividual freedom. This paper reviews three of the five principles: majority rule and minority rights, individual freedom, and necessity of compromise. Two of these cases of individual freedom plus majority rule and minority rights the United States has failed to uphold. The …

…failed to structure a sound foundation of democracy for itself. Horrifying as it is, many cases such as the three in this paper show facts do not lie. Anyone has the capability to see how the United States government has failed to follow a sound basis. There is of course the possibility of choosing the right sentence in giving the grandparents visitation rights which would show a glimmer of hope of the American government lasting.