20. With Law the Land Shall be Built

Preamble of Jyske Lov, a Danish landscape law from 1241, original: ‘Meth logh scal land byggies’..

Democracy comes from Greek and simply means (ordinary) people’s rule, as opposed to other forms of government such as for example Oligarchy, rule of a select elite, or Tyranny, rule by a single person. There are many other forms or government, as well as th…