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Democracy Definition
(n.) Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.
(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.
(n.) Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government.
(n.) The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called.
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the w...
Walt Whitman
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