ABSTRACT
In psychiatric terms, the normal or healthy individual can be said to be one who is mature; according to his or her chronological age and social setting there is an appropriate degree of emotional development. Psychiatric health is therefore a term without fixed meaning. In the same way the term ‘democratic' need not have a fixed meaning. A democracy is an achievement, at a point of time, of a limited society, i.e. of a society that has some natural boundary. The democratic set-up includes the provision of a certain degree of stability for the elected rulers; as long as they can manage their job without alienating the support of their electors, they carry on. For the development of a democracy, in the sense of a mature society structure, it seems that it is necessary that there should be some natural geographical boundary for that society.
