民主的概念

摘要

The core elements of modern democracy are citizens who share equally in mutually-compatible basic rights, serve as the final decision-makers on the community's constitution, and choose whom to be entrusted with legislative and executive powers, while at the same time wielding final veto power over the present government. The rule of the majority in modern democracy is no longer a fundamental principle, but rather a derivative principle the validity of which is based on the above-mentioned core elements.%现代民主的核心元素是公民平等分享基本权利,成为共同体宪法的最终裁定者并决定立法与行政权的最终归属,同时享有对现政府的最终否决权.多数决定的程序性原则在现代民主之中已不再是基本原则,而是从上述核心元素中派生出的原则.