Choose the best explanation of democracy from among the choices below.

Democracy is a political philosophy which holds that every person is inherently equal in rights and dignity to every other, and that the role of government is to secure those rights.

Democracy is the theory that holds that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Democracy is the theory that you and I, combined, have twice the political influence of David Rockefeller.

Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.