This question needs to be answered due to a assignment for school with which I’ve waited far to long. It should have been finished last term. At last, I will try to find a way to resolve this question.
Can democracy guarantee freedom of speech. I’d rather try to answer the question whether or not freedom of speech can guarantee democracy. Democracy of course is the ruling od the people. People can vote for their favoured party, and the partys together try to create a government. On a indirect way it is the people that decide the government. Freedom of speech is also freedom of press. With the freedom of speech the people of a nation can inform themselves, not just about other opinions, but also about other facts. If there is enough diversity each person can make the decision that they want.
This is theory. Democracy is a system that can only run on enough knowledge and enough interest. It can only succeed if the people are willing to take responsibility for the rule of their land. If people see government only as a tool to become rich or decide that they don't want to do anything with politics because it doesn't serve their goals it will soon be over. As long as everone lives their life, but says nothing, people can use politics only for their own good.
However, most often a democracy works. It might not really be the most perfect kind of government, but it works. Democracy is, more than any other governmental system, a system in which people cán have a choice. There are people with vision, people with leadership. People who know the value of words.
This last argument will be leading me to my conclusion. If you can choose to do right or wrong it is better then to have no choice at all. When people decide that they will use their freedom to expres democracy it will work. It's the only way.
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