{"id":2133,"date":"2025-09-22T11:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:25:17","slug":"democracy-between-the-slogan-and-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/posts\/2133","title":{"rendered":"Democracy between the slogan and practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheikh Kazem Al-Qarghouli<br \/>\nAs long as the concept of democracy has captivated souls, and people have been drawn to its slogans that promise participation, representation, and justice.<br \/>\nThe word democracy itself possesses a specific meaning it is an ancient Greek term composed of two parts: \u2018demos\u2019 meaning \u2018the people\u2019 and \u2018kratos\u2019 meaning \u2018power\u2019 or \u2018rule\u2019<br \/>\nthe literal meaning of the word democracy is \u2018the rule of the people\u2019 or \u2018the power of the people\u2019. How can one not find comfort in participating in the management of their own affairs?<br \/>\nThe term first appeared in ancient Athens in the fifth century BC, where their democracy was direct, allowing free male citizens to participate personally in making laws and decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Arabic Version:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/posts\/3301\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/posts\/3301<\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/06.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To read more click here<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheikh Kazem Al-Qarghouli As long as the concept of democracy has captivated souls, and people have been drawn to its slogans that promise participation, representation, and justice. The word democracy itself possesses a specific meaning it is an ancient Greek term composed of two parts: \u2018demos\u2019 meaning \u2018the people\u2019 and \u2018kratos\u2019 meaning \u2018power\u2019 or \u2018rule\u2019 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}