Difference between revisions of "Democracy"

<p> (1): (n.) [[Government]] by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people. </p> <p> (2): (n.) Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic. </p> <p> (3): (n.) Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government. </p> <p> (4): (n.) The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called. </p>

<p> 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." </p>