Abstract
In fact, we could set a few provisional requirements to the evaluation of a government as democratic in order to analyze the British particular case. These requirements would be of different natures, and would be related first to the institutional system, then to the society itself. Indeed, the legal frame should be the one of a representative system, in which the different powers would be separate and independent, and in which free elections open to the society with a diversity of candidates could be celebrated. On the social scale, there should be a civil society, autonomous and active, a civil control of the national and local security forces and independent media towards the political power and the economic and pressure groups. These characteristics can be modified throughout this essay, as its purpose is to consider whether the British government is democratic in the light of a non static definition of democracy in today's political world. In order to do so, it will first be examined that the tradition of government in the United Kingdom was not built on democracy, but rather on Parliamentary and Liberalism aspects.
