Not exactly. It's fundamental to specific flavor of western democracy that has become common in the world, at least on paper. But you can have democracy withou

Not exactly. It's fundamental to specific flavor of western democracy that has become common in the world, at least on paper. But you can have democracy without it. In fact you can have democracy with lot of other characteristics that seem weird today, like randomly chosen representatives, slavery, exile etc. It's largely orthogonal.