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| a system of government in which the people rule; rule by the many |
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| rule by the few, where a minority group holds power over a majority, as in an aristocracy or a clerical establishment |
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| rule by the one, where power rests in the hands of a king or queen |
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| a form of political decision making in which the public business is decided by all citizens meeting in small assemblies |
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| indirect democracy, in which the people rule through elected representatives |
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| the basic principle of democracy that the people are the ultimate source of government authority and of the policies that the government leaders make |
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| the form of political decision making in which policies are decided on the basis of what a majority of the people want |
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| the principle that says that each person carries equal weight in the conduct of the public business |
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| guarantees by government of equal citizenship to all social groups |
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| the principle that citizens in a democracy are protected from government interference in the exercise of a range of basic freedoms, such as the freedoms of speech, association, and conscience |
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| the idea that government is the result of an agreement among people to form one, and that people have the right to create an entirely new government if the terms of the contract have been violated by the existing one |
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| representative democracy characterized by popular sovereignty, liberty, and political equality |
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| suppression of the rights and liberties of a minority by the majority |
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| popular term for the system of legally sanctioned racial segregation that existed in the American South until the middle of the twentieth century |
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