The fourth section in the Syntopical Course Guide for each of the interrelated Great Ideas is Online Research. After your initial reaction to the Great Idea, your formal introduction to and readings concerning the Great Idea, you will now be asked to do a small amount of online research as it relates to great works that comment or expand upon the Great Idea....
There are many forms of government. There are aristocracies, oligarchies, monarchies, tyrannies and anarchies as just a few other models of governance over the body politic. So which is the best form of government? This is the primary question when thinking about the Great Idea of Democracy. Which form of government is the most fair, most efficient, most competent, most socially and economically just, least biased, least safe, least stable, least peaceful? These are the questions that plague anyone considering forms of governance and a logical place to begin about thinking of democracy....