"Democracy is a form of government in which the power is exercised by people through bodies that are elected to represent them". A fair reality that appears us like a normality in our society nowadays, but during the history it had ups and downs, disappearance and revival: all began in the ancient time in the Peloponnesian area, when in Athenians' mind started the first very primitive form of people's power.

The democratic ideal, after Greek experience, minimized itself with the succeeding of various kingdom, from Alexander Magnus till to the Roman Empire that, even if it was heavy influenced by Illyrian culture and traditions, it didn't set up neither in the Republican phase,nor in the Imperial phase, a democracy equal to the Athenian one. The decline of the Empire changes also in institutional decline and so we can considerate the 476 d.c. as the total fall of democracy in Europe; the barbarian invasions and the dark centuries lead to the Middle Ages, a period centred on the clash between papacy and empire and on the origin of Feudal system, characterized by the total lack of a real State, by a closed government exercised by the king and his vassals that had a full power over their possessions and over the people who lived there, people that were

considered only as things, in total absence of democracy. The next step is represented by the origin of the Commons, overall in the Italian and German area: an important return to democracy in the European scenery, it doesn't show international character, but it is only circumscribed in freer area than the feudal powers (the cities). It won't have the right continuity and cohesion that would have permitted it to survive when the national monarchies in 14th and 15th century will arise and changed into absolutistic kingdoms in 15th and 16th. In this environment the United States diverges from the other ones, being democratic since the origin and England that had just got a democratic system and then it was set up as a constitutional monarchy, that is to say a great step higher than the Ancien regime of the continent that will be replaced by a democracy in France for the first time, at the scream of Libertè, Egalitè, Fraternitè coming from French revolution, of whose values will be exported by Napoleone on the rest of Europe.The Restoration will try to bring back the situation of the past, but

the ideas and the desire of Liberty were just well fixed among the patriots of the time, that with the rising and the European '48 were able to have some Constitution promulgated by respective kings: this is the case of Savoy kingdom, from which we can get the first form of Italian Constitution, the Albert's Statute, that will be after extended to all the Kingdom of Italy when the Unity will be created in 1861. It was matter of a short Constitution that entrusted the executive power to the king, and the legislative power was up to the Parliament (two Chambers, one of royal appointment and the other elective) in co-operation with the king. The Statute went on up to 1922, when in Italy, as in Europe, the Fascist and Nazi totalitarianisms spread themselves (Mussolini took the power in 1922) whereas in

Russia the communist adventure, animated by good intentions, changed into dictatorship; maybe it was matter of the worse collapse of the democracy in the European history, also because it degenerated into the World War II. When the war ended up, the lots of the Europe were decided in Yalta: the western countries became pro-American, whereas in the East the communist block was formed where democracy kept on being absent. In Italy, in the meantime the Constituent Assembly wrote the new Constitution, and at the end in 1948, when the law will be approved, Italy became a real democracy, with an important innovation compared to the Constitutions of '800 century:

our Republic will be based on the work rather then on private property and personal initiative. So democracy in Italy could be said discharged, but for Europe we'll still have to wait the 1989; the falling of the wall in Berlin signs the end of communism and, step by step, ex soviet countries will reach democracy, a waking up with a great style that people waited and is persisting now.However, even if the democratic process in the Old Continent can be said discharged, stern inequality still persist in the rest of the world that restrict the people's sovereignty, because, for us, equality between people and freedom are the base of a full democracy. In the most backward African and Asiatic countries (and up to few years ago, also in south America) these principles aren't respected, overall where there are

dictatress and integralistic Islamic government, in which the Coranic laws is also the State laws and heavy grafts lot of people's life. Who exercise the power in all these countries where the personal power is at the first place in their interests, should take a glance to their fellow-citizens that may die of famine like in North Korea , and rather than waste billions for military costs in way to preserve the regime, they could save thousands of lives.