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theocracy

noun as in government in which a deity is the supreme civil ruler

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  • church-state
  • hierocracy
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The United States will be pushed toward a White “Christian” theocracy.

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Or will she find herself in a plutocratic theocracy ruled by ignorance and led by weak men who claim to be strong?

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He’s the conflicted architect of a militarized theocracy that took root in America after a second civil war where the Constitution did not prevail.

She reiterated that the nation's founders "never intended for this country to be a theocracy."

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Unlike earlier incarnations of the Christian right, the explicit goal of the widely-discussed but little-understood NAR is to install theocracy with a democratic facade, approximately on the Iranian model.

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

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