About The Word Democracy
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Democracy
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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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