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Democracy is a form of government in which citizens or their elected representatives directly run the affairs of state. Democracies in Europe share such features as universal suffrage (the right to vote for all qualified citizens), competition for office among political candidates, and freedom of expression and assembly. Democratic ideals appeared in modern form in the philosophies of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Since the French Revolution in 1789, the states of Europe have shown an increasing trend toward democratic government. Most of the states of modern Europe are constitutional monarchies or republics, in which laws are made by a legislative assembly or parliament.

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