OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3236

democracy

/dɪˈmɒk.ɹə.si/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
democracia
Rule by the people, especially as a form of government; either directly or through elected representatives (representative democracy).
And the essential value and power of Democracy consists in this,—that it combines, as far as possible, power and organization ; THE SPIRIT, MANHOOD, is at one with THE BODY, ORGANI…
The period, that is, which marks the transition from absolutism or aristocracy to democracy will mark also the transition from absolutist or autocratic methods of nomination to dem…
democracia
A government under the direct or representative rule of the people of its jurisdiction.
In 1900 not a single country had what we would today consider a democracy: a government created by elections in which every adult citizen could vote.
Of course, the Russians think it is something else because they say the Russians have a democracy and it is plain that their government is not what the Americans regard as a democr…
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