democratic
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Senator Rafael Filizzola said: "We are facing the biggest corruption scandal in our democratic history – a tremendous blow to the state, to private citizens, and to the country's credibility and image."
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
Au was a teacher but after the 1989 crackdown in China, he came to believe that Macau urgently needed to become an open, democratic society, and entered politics.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
“I think it will be much easier for attacks on the democratic process to be beaten back.”
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026
Elections are the closest thing to a civic sacrament in a secular, democratic state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
What seemed perfectly normal to white Birmingham residents proved a genuine contradiction of our nation’s democratic ideals to outsiders such as Salisbury.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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