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Democracy

noun

(pl. democracies)

The political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives.

A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them. Synonyms: commonwealth, republic.

The doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group. Synonym: majority rule.

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— The Haunted Bookshop • Christopher Morley

... religious opinion should be inviolate; that the policy of our country is peace and the ark of our salvation union are articles of faith upon which we are all now agreed. If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common concerns of a mighty nation, those doubts have been dispelled; if there have been projects of partial confederacies to be erected upon the ruins of the ...

— U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses • Various

... the forms of government which have most prevailed, are designated by the terms, monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, or republic. These words severally indicate by what persons, and in what manner, the governing power of a state is exercised. This power is usually called the sovereign, or supreme power. Where kings rule, they are called sovereign; and where ...

— The Government Class Book • Andrew W. Young

... sided with Philip of Valois, the breach between the democracy of Ghent and its nominal soverign now became impassable. Van Artevelde held supreme power in Ghent and Flanders for nine years—the golden age of Flemish commerce—and was treated on equal terms by Edward, who stopt ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 (of 10) • Various

... of the rich merchants, industrials, and nabobs in England. As the power of the nobles decreased, the central power or the power of the kings increased; increased indeed, and lasted, down to the greatest crusade of all, when democracy organized itself, and marched to the redemption of the rights of man as man, without regard to his previous ...

— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier

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