The correct answer is: The people.
The main and most important characteristic of Democracy is that the people get to elect their representatives, and that the government posts only last a specific number of years.
If a leader is imposed or imposes himself upon the people, or if he stays for longer than the constitution says, his government is no longer a Democracy.
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following year, Cortes had to return
The correct way to complete this sentence is
In the following year, Cortes had to return to the coast of Mexico.
*When we use time phrases either if they are adverbial, conjunctions, etc... we have to use a comma right after it. The only option that has that structure is the fourth one.
b. On our trip through South America, we visited Buenos Aires, Argentina; Santiago, Chile; and Lima, Peru.
c. Fred can speak these languages: Japanese; Korean; and Tagalog.
d. Harrison County; Mississippi, Mobile County; Alabama, and Hillsborough County; Florida are all right on the Gulf of Mexico.
c or d
First of all, you need to know what a trochee is. It is a metrical foot which consists of two syllables - the first one is stressed, and the second one is unstressed. Its 'antonym' would be an iamb which Shakespeare used in his poetry - an iamb also consists of two syllables, however, the first one is unstressed, and the second one is stressed.
An example of a trochee is this line from Poe's 'The Raven:'
AH disTINCTly I reMEMber IT was IN the BLEAK deCEMber.