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catalysing a sustainable global democracy. Effectuating equality in diversity rests on the
understanding of man and his sensitivity to the differences, and consequent needs, of one
another. Democratic political systems geared with men that operate with such understand-
ing and sensitivity function both to repress civic units that challenge the protection and pro-
motion of justice and suppress alien intervention earmarked to arbitrarily enforce an alien
brand of democracy that is chiefly unpalatable and insensitive. Mankind must realize that
for one to force values upon another serves to fundamentally undermine his own values;
sovereign States must mirror this realization. Democratic political systems are bound by
social contract to the citizens of the State in guaranteeing the protection and promotion of
justice, whence if a brand of democracy, western or otherwise, is arbitrarily imposed, the
State must exercise its sovereignty in measures to abrogate such imposition detrimental to
the populous, on account of its obligation towards the citizens.

Conclusion

Democracy survives because it remains centric to, and sanctifies the sovereignty of, the
populace, thus thriving on the cardinal virtue of humility . Yet, notwithstanding the fact
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of it being a global tongue of governance, democracy will not prevail as the be all and end
all of political systems of governance, for “like all other human inventions, democratic val-
ues and institutions are never set in stone; even the meaning of democracy changes through
time” . A global democracy that protects and promotes the principle of justice, wherein
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such protection and promotion of rights and freedoms effect that such principles trickle
down into domestic democratic political systems, is the only means of furthering democ-
racy. Winston Churchill testifies to the survival of democracy in declaring that “no one
pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the
worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to
time.” The prima facie lack of a robust alternative to democracy warrants non-imminent
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democide, ergo States must nurture this political system of governance as opposed to capi-
talizing on such reality, by draining it of its diversity, in prospect of the selfish furtherance
of the geopolitical advancement of such State.

32 Keane proclaims humility to be “the antidote to arrogant pride”, Keane (n 3) 855
33 ibid xv
34 JK Baltzeran, ‘Churchill on Democracy Revisited’ (Enter Stage Right, 24 January 2005) <http://www.enterstageright.
com/archive/articles/0105/0105churchilldem.htm> accessed 18 April 2019