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Definition of Democracies
1. democracy [n] - See also: democracy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Democracies
Literary usage of Democracies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1920)
"democracies OF CITIZEN-CONSUMERS 1 democracies of Citizen-Consumers have been
not ably successful in the ownership and organisation the instruments of ..."
2. English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1908)
"There is, for instance, an obvious cleavage between Municipal democracies governed
by the whole body of Freemen in public meeting, and those enjoying ..."
3. States, Markets, and Just Growth: Development in the Twenty-first Century by Atul Kohli, Chung-in Moon, Georg Sørensen (2003)
"Once again, at one extreme, we know that democracies are not likely to undertake
... Contemporary democracies exist mainly in private-property economies and ..."
4. Problems in Greek History by John Pentland Mahaffy (1892)
"Slave- holding democracies. that have been so lauded in modern histories. ...
The student has, therefore, the case of democracies in Greece ably and ..."
5. Public opinion and popular government by Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1913)
"Experts in Monarchies and democracies Throughout the Middle Ages, and indeed
until a hundred and fifty years ago, democracies were small, or turbulent and ..."
6. Democracy and Liberty by William Edward Hartpole, Lecky (1896)
"A cause which is embodied in a single man is, with such democracies, far more
popular than a cause which rests upon any abstract principles or on any ..."
7. Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law by John William Burgess (1890)
"What we call the modern states are those based upon the principle of popular
sovereignty; ie they are democracies. Not all of them appear to be such, ..."
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