All 6 Uses
democracy
in
Glory Road
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- Oh, there is no rule against local democracy, just in imperial matters.†
Chpt 17
- Old Rufo—excuse me; Doctor Rufo, a most distinguished comparative culturologist (with a low taste for slumming)—Rufo told me that every human race tries every political form and that democracy is used in many primitive societies ....but he didn't know of any civilized planet using it, as Vox Populi, Vox Dei translates as: "My God!†
Chpt 17
- But Rufo claimed to enjoy democracy—any time he felt depressed he sampled Washington, and the antics of the French Parliament were second only to the antics of French women.†
Chpt 17
- Democracy.†
Chpt 20
- Democracy can't work.†
Chpt 20
- Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is—so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work.†
Chpt 20 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(democracy) a system of government in which citizens have power with equal votes
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)