All 3 Uses of
democracy
in
Politics and the English Language
- The words DEMOCRACY, SOCIALISM, FREEDOM, PATRIOTIC, REALISTIC, JUSTICE, have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.†
- In the case of a word like DEMOCRACY, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides.†
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- It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of rĂ©gime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.†
Definition:
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(democracy) a system of government in which citizens have power with equal votes