Abstract
‘Most people think that democratic decisions have special moral force – which we have good reasons to obey laws that are democratically chosen. If this is true, why is it true? If it's not true, why is it not?' Democracy is commonly regarded as the best, or the least bad, political system available in our societies. The war in Iraq, in example, aimed at reversing Saddam Hussein's dictatorship in order to set a democratic system, which was expected to bring freedom and prosperity to Iraqi people. The roots of the word democracy refers to popular sovereignty, as ‘demos' means in Greek ‘the people' and ‘kratos' means power. However, this popular sovereignty can't go along without the necessary ‘political equality' referring among other things to the rule of law, the fact that all are allowed to run for office, and equal voting power. Another characteristic which is also often linked to democracy is the ‘popular accountability' which refers mostly to the fairness of the system .
