text: how can u describe a democratic government?   a true democracy never has existed and never will.  a true democracy implies that everyone has a vote on everything.  now when teacher says that ancient greece was a democracy that isn't the truth, because women, children, slaves, and convicts were prohibited from voting.  even in the greece example they had a council to handle the day to day ruling of the city-state.  a true democracy would never have a ruling council.  by the way the us is  a federal republic