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Defining Democracy (http://www.synonyms.net/synonym/democracy)
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1. Government by the people;
2. a form of government in which
the supreme power is vested in
the people and exercised directly
by them or by their elected
agents under a free electoral
system;
3. a state of society characterized
by formal equality of rights and
privileges
majority The doctrine that the numerical
rule
majority of an organized group can
make binding decisions on the
whole group.
has been defined to be government
of the people by the people and for
the people, or as a State in which the
government rests directly with the
majority of the citizens, but this
under the protest of some that it is
not an end but a means "to the
attainment of a truer and truer
aristocracy, or government again
by the Best."
A form of government by popular
ignorance.
Sense: (a country having) a form of
government in which the people
freely elect representatives to
govern them.