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Definition of Democracy

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

2. Noun. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them.

3. Noun. The doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group.

Definition of Democracy

1. n. Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.

Definition of Democracy

1. Noun. Rule by the people, especially as a form of government; either directly or through elected representatives (representative democracy). ¹

2. Noun. (countable government) A government under the direct or representative rule of the people of its jurisdiction. ¹

3. Noun. Belief in political freedom and equality; the "spirit of democracy". ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Democracy

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Medical Definition of Democracy

1. A system of government in which there is free and equal participation by the people in the political decision-making process. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Democracy

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Literary usage of Democracy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"democracy — Continual b,i démocratie anglaise et la guerre. W. Steed. ... Miss Val Hist R 3:99-102 Je '16 Effect of democracy on international law. E. Root. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1908)
"Christian democracy is the ensemble of Catholic doctrine, organization, ... Christian democracy recognizes in principle and in fact that the popular social ..."

3. The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle by Ernest Barker (1906)
"Modern democracy, then, cannot be as extreme as Greek de- ... •eek democracy, and to urge that, resting as it did on a basis ,very, it was really in ..."

4. The Life of Reason; Or, The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana (1905)
"CHAPTER V democracy The word democracy may stand for a natural democracy ... The former may be called social democracy and the latter democratic government. ..."

5. Preventing Deadly Conflict edited by David A. Hamburg, Cyrus R. Vance (1998)
"International IDEA provides a central meeting place and information source for those working to promote democracy throughout the world. ..."

6. The Spirit of Russia: Studies in History, Literature and Philosophy by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1919)
"In Bakunin's conception of democracy as religious in character we trace the ... §89- THE programme of religious democracy was transformed by Bakunin into ..."

7. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1920)
"However, as we use the term, 1 let us think of democracy as implying a general ... Perhaps, as with democracy, it may be necessary to select one of the ..."

8. The American Political Science Review (1920)
"4 democracy AND EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT- LESSONS OF THE WAR CHARLES G. FENWICK Bryn ... In the formulation of its policies democracy is thus reduced to what is ..."

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