What is the meaning of democracy?

noun

  • The political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives.
  • A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them.
  • The doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group.
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