CSL2601 Assignment
2 Semester 1 2023
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Critically discuss the features regarded as indispensable to a democratic government.
Democracy is the feature that speaks most directly to the fact that all decisions in a
constitutional state should be made by the people themselves based on the majority’s
opinion of what is in society’s best interests. A system where the will of a single person
prevails is more appropriately referred to as a dictatorship.
In the South African Constitution, the idea of democracy is a prominent one that permeates
virtually all aspects of the Constitution. Beyond the Preamble, section 1 of the Constitution
ushers in democracy by declaring South Africa to be ‘a sovereign, democratic state’.
Section 1(d) builds further on this by setting out the democratic values and principles on
which South Africa is founded, namely ‘[u]universal adult suffrage, a national common
voters roll, regular elections and a multi-party system of democratic government, to
ensure accountability, responsiveness and openness’
An important feature of South Africa’s democracy is that it is a constitutional democracy; a
representative democracy; and a participatory democracy all at the same time.
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2 Semester 1 2023
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, QUESTION 1
Critically discuss the features regarded as indispensable to a democratic government.
Democracy is the feature that speaks most directly to the fact that all decisions in a
constitutional state should be made by the people themselves based on the majority’s
opinion of what is in society’s best interests. A system where the will of a single person
prevails is more appropriately referred to as a dictatorship.
In the South African Constitution, the idea of democracy is a prominent one that permeates
virtually all aspects of the Constitution. Beyond the Preamble, section 1 of the Constitution
ushers in democracy by declaring South Africa to be ‘a sovereign, democratic state’.
Section 1(d) builds further on this by setting out the democratic values and principles on
which South Africa is founded, namely ‘[u]universal adult suffrage, a national common
voters roll, regular elections and a multi-party system of democratic government, to
ensure accountability, responsiveness and openness’
An important feature of South Africa’s democracy is that it is a constitutional democracy; a
representative democracy; and a participatory democracy all at the same time.
1
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