Task 1 – Democracy           250-word synopsis of Graylings main line of argument 

On the contrary Graylings main line of argument is that democracy is imperfect and a fairly new system and look on democracy. Democracy is imperfect as it still isn’t fair as the systems used such as FPTP means that a minority can lead to the referendum outcome and in fact the majority of the time it is a representative democracy. Although this can be negative electoral systems which accurately portray the nations votes such as Italy often create coalition governments which often are weak unstable and unreliable. However Israel have a somewhat perfect balance as they instead have tiny majority parties. While democracy is seen as a trait almost related to the Western world for the vast majority of its history it was not democratic and it wasn’t until the Athenian Democracy was invented that the western world began to convert. While many such as Plato and Aristotle saw this system as ignorant as it excluded the majority of its population it was the beginning of the democracy revolution and over time has vastly evolved until it came to Britain in 1832.  There were many fears of this system taking away people’s possessions and property especially from the founding fathers and even Winston Churchill had his doubts.