Concept information
Preferred term
Democracy
Definition
- Government by the people, especially the rule of the majority; a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections; a political unit that has a democratic government [Merriam Web Collegiate]
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Representative government, democracy
- Self-government
Notation
- 121003
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-FR9QN7QT-B
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