The destination of the society and the State, calling of the authorities and politics, as the forms of the exercise of power and policy have been and continue to be the issues of most acrimonious debate among scientists of all time. For a long time the essence of these discussions was, and in a number of countries, until now is defined by the State of the centrist concept of social development. The theory of contemporary democracy is based on the view that society determines almost all life processes, and the State is the only one of the many thousands of institutions of society, formed to deal with the arising here problems. Each of these institutions solves one group of the problems. The article set out the understanding of these issues, their correlation and interconnection of the democratic part of thinkers of different times, which allows the author to interpret democracy much wider than it does traditionally.