democratic state

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Norms are a means to a larger end, which is a functioning democratic state.

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2025

But it soon also came to represent the vision of a secular democratic state with equality for all.

From Salon • Nov. 17, 2023

"So we need to figure out a way, one, to stay in the same land, two, without killing each other, and three, while maintaining a Jewish democratic state."

From Reuters • Sep. 13, 2023

Hun Sen is noted as a canny and sometimes ruthless politician, and has since then managed to drive his rival into exile and neutralize all his challengers, even though Cambodia is a nominally democratic state.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2023

The antinomy would hardly strike a modern Englishman as odd, but it was anomalous in what was already a thoroughly democratic state.

From A History of the United States by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)