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democracy

noun as in government in which people participate

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A second document was titled: “Gambia Reborn: A Charter for Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy and Development.”

Faal told the FBI that his group was trying “restore democracy to The Gambia and improve the lives of its people.”

Actually, the guessing game is over; the weddings have begun, as have weird attempts to circumvent our constitutional democracy.

Thomas Piketty raised the Big Questions this year about democracy and inequality.

Piketty only waves his hands around the all-important question of whether economic inequality undermines democracy.

He was so zealous a partisan of democracy, and of Cromwell, that the authorities frequently placed him in a straight jacket.

I have a strong reverence for traditions, and no taste whatever for democracy—that would be too long a step.

Democracy, let us grant it, is the best system of government as yet operative in this world of sin.

I had long ago adopted democracy as a good policy, so now I stopped to introduce myself.

He based this plan upon the premise that democracy would be more successful if greater numbers of individuals were educated.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to democracy, such as: equality, freedom, justice, commonwealth, egalitarianism, and emancipation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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