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32 / Social and Political Life
Discuss
Nowhere in the
1. Do you think it is important for people world have gover-
to be involved in decisions that affect nments willingly
them? Give two reasons for your answer. shared power.
2. Which type of government would All over Europe
you prefer to have in the place you live and USA,
in? Why? women and
3. Which of the statements below is the poor have
correct? Correct those sentences that had to fight for
participation
you think need correction.
in government.
a. In a monarchy the country's Women's
citizens are allowed to elect whomever struggle to vote
they want. got strengthened
b. In a democracy a king has during the First World
absolute powers to rule the country. War. This movement is called the
c. In a monarchy people can raise women's suffrage movement as
questions about the decisions the the term suffrage usually means
monarch takes. right to vote.
During the War, many men were
Democratic Governments away fighting, and because of this
India is a democracy. This women were called upon to do
work that was earlier considered
achievement is the result of a long
men's work. Many women began
and eventful struggle of the Indian
organising and managing
people. There are other places in the different kinds of work. When
world where people have also people saw this they began to
struggled to have democracies. You wonder why they had created so
now know that the main feature of a many unfair stereotypes about
women and what they were
democracy is that the people have the
capable of doing. So women
power to elect their leaders. So in a
began to be seen as being equally
sense a democracy is rule by the capable of making decisions.
people. The basic idea is that people
rule themselves by participating in the The suffragettes demanded the
making of these rules. right to vote for all women and to
get their demands heard they
Democratic governments in our chained themselves to railings in
times are usually referred to as public places. Many suffragettes
representative democracies. In were imprisoned and went on
representative democracies people hunger strikes,and they had to be
fed by force. American women got
do not participate directly but,
the right to vote in 1920 while
instead, choose their representatives women in the UK got to vote on
through an election process. These the same terms as men some
representatives meet and make years later, in 1928.
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