 | Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1839 - 384 pages
...emphatically, mixed governments. § 37. A democracy is a form of government in which the supreme power is in the hands of the people collectively, or in which the people meet in one assembly, and enact and execute the laws. The governments of ancient Greece were democracies.... | |
 | John Craig (F.G.S.) - 1849 - 1148 pages
...monarch ; — ra to rule ; to gorern ; to convert into a monarchy. MONARCHY, mon'nr-ke, *. A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a single person ; a kingdom ; an empire. MOVAUDA, mo-nar'da, s. (in honour of Nic. Monarda.) A genus... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1850 - 578 pages
...MO.V-ARCH-IZE, в. i. or 1. To play the king; to rute : to convert to a monarchy. MON'- ARCH- Y, ». A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a «ingle person. MON'-AS-TER-Y, ». A house of monks ; a convent. MO-N'AS'-Tle, e. Pertaining to monks... | |
 | Luther Calvin Saxton - Poland - 1851 - 586 pages
...Greek terms, demos the people, and krateo to rule ; and literally means, government by the people j or a form of government in which the supreme power is...which the people exercise the powers of legislation. Such was the meaning of the term among the Grecian republics, where it had its origin. But in modern... | |
 | Luther Calvin Saxton - Poland - 1851 - 600 pages
...Greek terms, demos the people, and krateo to rule ; and literally means, government by the people ; or a form. of government in which the supreme power is...of the people collectively, or in which the people exorcise the powers of legislation. Such was the meaning of the term among the Grecian republics, where... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1852 - 678 pages
...with the second person in the Trinity. DKMOC KACY, a form of government, in which the supreme power L$ lodged in the hands of the people collectively, or in which the people exercise tho power* of legislation. DEMOUrOR'GON, in mythology, a mysterious divinity of antiquity, of who^e... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 880 pages
...conveyance where there are mutual leases made from one to another of the same land, or something out of it. DEMOCRACY, a form of government, in which the supreme...which the people exercise the powers of legislation. DE'MON, or 1VF/MON, a name used by the ancients for certain supernatural beings, whose existence they... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 852 pages
...conveyance where there are mutual leases made from one to another of the same land, or something out of it. DEMOC'RACY, a form of government, in which the supreme...collectively, or in ; which the people exercise the powers of i legislation. DE'MON, or DE'MON, a name used by ! the ancients for certain supernatural beings, I... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 872 pages
...from one to another of the same land, or something out of it. DEMOC'RACY, a form of government, ii> which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of...which the people exercise the powers of legislation. DE'MON, or D/ETtfON, a name used by the ancients for certain supernatural beings, whose existence they... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1854 - 190 pages
...who commands a squadron of ships. Com 'mou-place, too common to be worth repeating. Com'mon-weolth, a form of government in which the supreme power is lodged in the people. Com-mo'tion, tumult. Com'pa-ny, persons met together. Com-part'ment, a division, as of a box... | |
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DEMOCRACY, a form of government, in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the people collectively, or in which the people exercise the powers of legislation. 
