What is Democracy ?

What is democracy ? Pure democracy is simply the rule of the majority. That may sound great and even practical-unless you are in the minority and the issues concern your well-being and perhaps even your ife.
Benjamin Franklin said : "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have lunch." Majority rule is, in essence, the tyranny of the majority, wherein dissenters are oppressed. At its worst, it can devolve into mob rule, a fearful circumstance that can break down into anarchy and calls for authoritian by a single leader.
American Founding Father John Adams said : "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhauts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monorchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appear in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked produce the same effect of fraud, violence, and cruetly.
Yet even a true democratic republic does not neccessarily promote freedom. The forces of democracy are still at work in selecting representation. A takeoff on the humorous quote up front notes that is a republic,the flock gets to vote for which wolves vote on lunch.Of course, some countries refer to themselves as democratic republics even if truly free election are absent. Communist regimes are notorious

Here's a clear case, then, where democracy does not equate to freedom.

City of God

St. Thomas Aquinas agreed with St. Augustine that Church is necessary to secure eternal good but at the same time, like Aristotle, he believed that the state is necessary to provide the condition for a good life. Thus, Aquinas combine both reason and faith in his ideas which are called scholasticism. He try to integrate revelation with reason. Aquinas believed that the function of a state was to enable humans to lead virtous lives for eternal salvation. However, people cannot achieve salvation without the guidance of church. It is true that man is a social animal and, therefore, state is natural to man but is the church alone which has the universal spiritual authority. According to Aquinas, human beings are guided by four kinds of laws: a)univesal law; b)eternal law; c)natural law; d)human law. Universal law are divine law and, therefore, perfect. In human law, there is a possibility of errors. Therefore, he argued that a secula rule could fuction best only if he rules under the guidance of the Church. The Church being the controlling guide of the state, the Papal authority is superior to temporal authority.