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/dɪˈmɑkɹəsi/
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[ UK /dɪmˈɒkɹəsi/ ]
[ UK /dɪmˈɒkɹəsi/ ]
NOUN
- 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
- the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
How To Use democracy In A Sentence
- Liberal democracy is a fraud, a cover for the power of the elite. Times, Sunday Times
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- We want to defer the exorbitant, latter-day costs of all that energy binging, masquerading as democracy "preachifying"? Alec Baldwin: It's Time To Suck It Up And Pay Our Bill
- However, the measure intended to foster democracy will result in all three party leaders imposing a three-line whip on their respective MPs – a move hardly likely to ease the public's mistrust of Parliament. European Union: The referendum is an absurd sideshow | Observer editorial
- The importance of germaneness in the Senate is viewed by some to be critical to democracy.
- These reforms are meant to reinvigorate local democracy and reconnect people with politicians. Times, Sunday Times
- one of his cardinal convictions was that Britain was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy
- Havel has become his country's beacon of democracy and hope.
- It has planned a programme of district level meetings to mobilise public opinion in favour of democracy, communal harmony and peace.
- The very existence of the Tea Party unsettles the assertion that stable liberal democracy yields a politics governed by reason alone. Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party