Democracy
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.
(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.
(3): ( n.) Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government.
(4): ( n.) The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
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."
