UPSC Prelims 2017 Question:

Democracy’s superior virtue lies in the fact that it calls into activity

Explanation: 

• Democracy is government of the people, for the people and by the people. Therefore the intelligence and character of ordinary men and women is valued.
  
  

• It is a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections. 

• • Democracy is more about strengthening people’s voice rather than only strengthening the executive leadership.
  • A democracy works on well oiled machinery comprising of the legislature, judiciary and the executive, rater than the individual dynamism or vision of an single individual.
    
    

• A band of dedicated party workers is the characteristic of a political party.
  
  

• It also means the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges.
  
  

Therefore, option (1) is the correct answer.

Subject: Polity | Forms of Government