Four features of democracy:
•The final decision making power rests with those elected by the people.
•It must be based on a free and fair election.
•Each adult citizen must have one vote and each vote must have one value.
•It should rule within limits set by constitutional law and citizens' rights.
A state is a polity under a system of governance with a monopoly on force. There is no undisputed definition of a state.[1][2] A widely used definition from the German sociologist Max Weber is that a "state" is a polity that maintains a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, although other definitions are not uncommon.[3][4] A state is not synonymous with a government, as stateless governments like the Iroquois Confederacy exist.[5]
