Who rules in a democracy?

The correct answer is Public.

Important Points

• Democracy is government by the people in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
• According to Abraham Lincoln, democracy is a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people.
• Democracies fall into two basic categories, direct and Indirect.
• In a direct democracy, all citizens, without the intermediary of elected or appointed officials, can participate in making public decisions directly.
• In Indirect democracy, people choose a representative, and the representative participate in making public decisions directly.

Additional Information

• Prime Minister
  • In Parliamentary democracy People choose representatives and among them the leader became the prime minister.
  • Prime minister is the head of government in a country with a parliamentary political system.
• Judge
  • Judge also plays an important role in protecting the rights of the people.
  • Without a free Judicial system a country's democracy could be collapsed.
• Oligarchy
  • Oligarchy is defined as "government by the few," particularly when such power is abused by a select few Elite for their own corrupt or self-serving gain.
  • Plutocracies are oligarchies in which the ruling class is affluent or uses wealth to further their own interests.