Re: What WMDs?

begin  Daniel Cassidy's  quote:
| On Monday 2 June 2003 3:35 pm, dep wrote:
| > by the way, your definition of democracy is in error. it actually
| > has nothing to do with the publication of opinions but instead
| > with the means of selecting government officials.
|
| I assume you meant to say 'Democracy', and that as usual you are
| unable to fathom the concept of capital letters, since I'm sure
| you're aware that 'Democracy' is one of those capitalised political
| words that actually means something completely different to the
| uncapitalised version.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]



Democracy \De*moc"ra*cy\, n.; pl. Democracies. [F.
   d['e]mocratie, fr. Gr. dhmokrati`a; dh^mos the people +
   kratei^n to be strong, to rule, kra`tos strength.]
   1. Government by the people; a form of government in which
      the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by
      the people.

   2. Government by popular representation; a form of government
      in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but
      is indirectly exercised through a system of representation
      and delegated authority periodically renewed; a
      constitutional representative government; a republic.

   3. Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of
      government. --Milton.

   4. The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so
      called. [U.S.]



 WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]



democracy
     n 1: the political orientation of those who favor government by
          the people or by their elected representatives
     2: a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body
        of citizens who can elect people to represent them [syn: 
republic,
         commonwealth] [ant: autocracy]
     3: the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized
        group can make decisions binding on the whole group [syn:
        majority rule]

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