Which is a principle of political democracy that underpins universal suffrage and political equality?
One man, one vote One man, one vote (or one person, one vote) is a principle of political democracy that underpins universal suffrage and political equality. During the 20th-century period of decolonisation and the struggles for national sovereignty, from the late 1940s onwards this phrase became widely used in developing countries where majority populations sought to gain political power in proportion to their numbers.
Demoicracy Demoicracy (also demoi-cracy) is a polity of multiple distinct people ("demoi"), polity of polities. The term is derived from "demoi" (δῆμοι in original Ancient Greek, plural form of δῆμος or "demos"), meaning "peoples" and "kratos" (κράτος) meaning "power" (to govern oneself). It is apparently meant to become an alternative to democracy, understood as power of a single "demos". The term is used mainly to describe the genus of the European Union (EU) but is also gaining currency in more general theories of democracy above state level.