 | John Ogilvie - English language - 1908 - 488 pages
...vi. To play the king. Monarchot,mon-ar-k6',n. A fantastical person. Monarchy, mon'ar-ki. n. A form o* government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a single person, and which is absolute, limited or constitutional, hereditary or elective; a kingdom.... | |
 | Joseph Weldon Bailey - Democracy - 1913 - 48 pages
...person. Yet the 'democracies of Greece are often called republics. Democracy : Government by the people ; a form of government in which the supreme power is...collectively, or in which the people exercise the power of legislation. Such was the government of Athens. Mr. President, I am not vain enough to suppose... | |
 | Bartow Adolphus Ulrich - Constitutions - 1916 - 448 pages
...aristocracy." Noah Webster gives the following definitions : Democracy ; "Government by the people," "a form of government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the people collectively." Democrat; "one who adheres to a government by the people, or favors the extension of the right of suffrage... | |
 | K. Alan Snyder - History - 2002 - 302 pages
...the definitions of two types of government — a democracy and a republic. Whereas a democracy was "a form of government, in which the supreme power...which the people exercise the powers of legislation," a republic lodged the sovereign power in the hands of "representatives elected by the people."" The... | |
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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. 
