democracy, n.
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the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives
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democracy
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a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
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commonwealth democracy republic
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the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
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democracy majority rule
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