Shamanism refers to a range of traditional beliefs and practices concerned with communication with the spirit world. 1  The spirits can play important roles in human lives. 2  The shaman can control and/or cooperate with the spirits for the community's benefit.  The spirits can be either good or bad.
Educational Videos, Lessons and Games for K-12 School Kids. Democracy is a type of government in which the people of a country hold the power to rule by electing representatives. In modern democracies, the legislature, composed of people's representatives, is elected by popular suffrage. The executive head of government is either directly elected by the people, or chosen by the legislature according to the country's legal procedures. Certain social liberties such as freedom of speech and political expression, and a free press are essential precursors to democracy.
Democracy is a system that allows the people of a country to have more control in the formation of the laws of the land as well as in the policies and conduct of the representatives whom they choose on the basis of elections. There is input from the citizens of the country in democracy. There are different forms of democracies that follow the principles of true democracies in varying degrees with direct and representative being most commonly practiced in many parts of the world. There are differences between these two systems of democracy that will be talked about in this article.