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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

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-FR9QN7QT-B

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