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

Hun Sen, 70, an authoritarian ruler in a nominally democratic state, has been in power for 38 years.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 13, 2023

"Gradually, myself my kids and my grandkids are losing the hope to live here in a democratic state and to have a normal life like every person deserves," Hava Golan, 65 year-old biology professor said.

From Reuters • May 20, 2023

But I think we as citizens of a democratic state and the democratic state itself, should invent a structure where this is co-funded.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2023

The European system, based as it was upon royalist legitimacy and privileges, and denying as it did popular political rights, was declared to be inimical in spirit and in effect to the American democratic state.

From The Promise of American Life by Croly, Herbert David