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2: a political unit that has a democratic government
3capitalized : the principles and policies of the Democratic party in the U.S.
from emancipation Republicanism to New Deal Democracy
— C. M. Roberts
4: the common people especially when constituting the source of political authority
5: the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges
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republic, self-government, self-rule
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Is the United States a democracy or a republic?
The United States is both a democracy and a republic. Democracies and republics are both forms of government in which supreme power resides in the citizens. The word republic refers specifically to a government in which those citizens elect representatives who govern according to the law. The word democracy can refer to this same kind of representational government, or it can refer instead to what is also called a direct democracy, in which the citizens themselves participate in the act of governing directly.
What is the basic meaning of democracy?
The word democracy most often refers to a form of government in which people choose leaders by voting.
What is a democratic system of government?
A democratic system of government is a form of government in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic free elections.
Examples of democracy in a Sentence
Democracy, I would repeat, is the noblest form of government we have yet evolved …
— Norman Mailer, New York Review of Books, 27 Mar. 2002
… this and the economic failures of faithful democracies in places such as India or the Anglophone Caribbean demonstrated conclusively that there was no inherent link between freedom and capitalism …
— Orlando Patterson, New Republic, 8 Nov. 1999
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— Sarah Volpenhein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "'Hard-to-count' Native American tribes lag behind rest of Wisconsin in census response," 10 July 2020
Never mind that the then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback took a knee at the suggestion of a former NFL player who had also been a Green Beret, or that peaceful protest is a bedrock of our democracy.
— Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, "Opinion: NFL's gestures in confronting racism are meaningless so long as Colin Kaepernick remains unsigned," 3 July 2020
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First Known Use of democracy
1539, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
History and Etymology for democracy
borrowed from Middle French democracie, democratie, borrowed from Late Latin dēmocratia, borrowed from Greek dēmokratía, from dēmo- DEMO- + -kratia -CRACY