Democracy

(noun.) the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives.

(noun.) 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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• He never seems to have made the mistake of confusing democracy with demolatry. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• When the mass of men emerged from slavish obedience and made democracy inevitable, the taboo entered upon its final illness. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I have heard people maintain that: it makes no difference whether women want the ballot, or are fit for it, or can do any good with it,--this country is a democracy. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Tyranny springs from democracy much as democracy springs from oligarchy. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• For the object of democracy is not to imitate the rhythm of the stars but to harness political power to the nation's need. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• To put it briefly, democracy is afraid of the tyrant. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• For the purposes of the Commission democracy is an inefficient weapon. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• This, when assembled, is the largest and most powerful class in a democracy. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The revolt went deeper and democracy in politics was only an aspect of it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The two elements in our criterion both point to democracy. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The suffragist who bases a claim on the so-called logic of democracy is making the poorest possible showing for a good cause. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• An autocracy would no doubt have been admissible as a fully self-governing democracy with a franchise limited to one person. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But it is a caricature of democracy to make it also the law of individual initiative. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Well, I said, and how does the change from oligarchy into democracy arise? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Nor do we know if the methods of election used for the Soviets are any improvement upon the unsatisfactory methods in use in the Atlantic democracies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It is characteristic of these primitive democracies that they worship Man and distrust men. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Athens, it must be understood, was by far the largest of all the Greek city democracies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It always seems curious to watch the satisfaction of some reform magazines when China or Turkey or Persia imitates the constitutional forms of Western democracies. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Some democracies (Athens and Miletus, _e. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There were in the Greek democracies parties and party leaders, but no regular government in office and no regular opposition. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Well, he said, have you never heard that forms of government differ; there are tyrannies, and there are democracies, and there are aristocracies? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The Western democracies, as they woke up to freedom, discovered themselves imperial, and were considerably embarrassed by the discovery. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Jealous of all individuals, democracies have turned to machines. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Those portions of America where there are voting booths but no schools cannot possibly be described as democracies. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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