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responsibility to create their own future, equality before the law,
the right to vote, and the right to education.

These characteristics are included within several significant

historic documents, such as: The United States Declaration of
Independence that promotes the right to life, liberty and the

pursuit of happiness; the French Declaration of the Rights of Mab
and of the Citizen, that defines the rights to civil liberties and

equality before the law; and the more recent Atlantic Charter that
formulates the four basic rights.

By the middle of the twentieth century, every independent

country in the world, with few exceptions, had already formed a
government, which, if not in practice, then on paper, stood for the

basic principles of democracy.

Although the ideals of democracy are universal, their

understanding and fulfillment is different for different countries in

the world.

The period of creating democracies brought great but insufficient

progress. Demagoguery was used to create democratic
demagogy which rules almost everywhere.

Demagoguery is the art and practice of gaining power by

arousing the emotions, passions and prejudices of the people. It

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