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Democracy

Democracy Meaning & Definition
Democracy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Democracy?

[n] the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
[n] the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives
[n] a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

Synonyms | Synonyms for Democracy: commonwealth | majority rule | republic

Related Terms | Find terms related to Democracy: absolute monarchy | aristocracy | autarchy | autocracy | autonomy | coalition government | collective farm | collectivism | collectivity | collegiality | colonialism | common ownership | commonwealth | communal effort | communion | communism | community | constitutional government | constitutional monarchy | cooperation | cooperative society | dictatorship | dominion rule | duarchy | duumvirate | dyarchy | federal government | federation | feudal system | garrison state | gerontocracy | heteronomy | hierarchy | hierocracy | home rule | kibbutz | kolkhoz | limited monarchy | martial law | meritocracy | militarism | military government | mob rule | mobocracy | monarchy | neocolonialism | ochlocracy | oligarchy | pantisocracy | patriarchate | patriarchy | police state | profit sharing | public ownership | pure democracy | regency | representative democracy | representative government | republic | self-determination | self-government | sharecropping | social democracy | socialism | state ownership | stratocracy | technocracy | thearchy | theocracy | totalitarian government | totalitarian regime | town meeting | triarchy | triumvirate | tyranny | welfare state

See Also | doctrine | form of government | ideology | ism | parliamentary democracy | philosophy | political orientation | political system | political theory | school of thought

Democracy In Webster's Dictionary

\De*moc"ra*cy\, n.; pl. {Democracies}. [F. d['e]mocratie, fr. Gr. dhmokrati`a; dh^mos the people + kratei^n to be strong, to rule, kra`tos strength.] 1. Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people. 2. Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic. 3. Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government. --Milton. 4. The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called. [U.S.]

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