(n.) Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government.
(n.) The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called.
Example Sentences:
(1) On his blog, Grillo called the referendum results a victory for democracy.
(2) We are deeply saddened," said Nyan Win, a spokesman of National League for Democracy.
(3) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
(4) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
(5) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(6) Historical reality suggests the concept of socially necessary risk determined through the dialectic process in democracy.
(7) Spain’s constitutional court responded by unanimously ruling that the legislation had ignored and infringed the rules of the 1978 constitution , adding that the “principle of democracy cannot be considered to be separate from the unconditional primacy of the constitution”.
(8) These are basic principles of democracy and Israeli law.
(9) The values of human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and the respect for human rights are absolutely fundamental to the European Union.
(10) And it means the Foreign Office dealing with those in the Middle East and North Africa who are on the side of democracy and human rights, not sitting down to tea with torturers.
(11) The referendum shows that democracy really sucks – that democracy does not deliver stability, prosperity [or] responsible government,” Tsang said.
(12) This thoughtful intervention brought new hope to us and others, for the rebuilding of public trust in surveillance conducted with respect for privacy, democracy and the law.
(13) "For tax evaders, she should turn to Pasok and New Democracy to explain to her why they haven't touched the big money and have been chasing the simple worker for two years."
(14) Secularism is the only way to stop collapse and chaos and to foster bonds of citizenship in our complex democracy.
(15) The charity Bite the Ballot , which persuaded hundreds of thousands to register before the last general election, is to set up “democracy cafes” in Starbucks branches, laying on experts to explain how to register and vote, and what the referendum is all about (Bite the Ballot does not take sides but merely encourages participation).
(16) The writer John Lanchester concedes that democracies will always need spies, but reading the Snowden documents persuaded him that piecing together habits of thought from internet searches takes things far beyond conventional spying: “Google doesn’t just know you’re gay before you tell your mum; it knows you’re gay before you do.
(17) In the wake of her win, Aung San Suu Kyi has written to Min Aung Hlaing, the president, Thein Sein, and the parliamentary Speaker, Shwe Mann, requesting a meeting to discuss the election and “national reconciliation”, according to the National League for Democracy Facebook page.
(18) Our later measures – parliament's power to declare peace and war, MPs to be subject to a right to recall, an end to the royal prerogative, an elected Lords – were about a 21st-century democracy, with citizenship to be founded on a new bill of rights and responsibilities and, in time, a written constitution.
(19) It won’t happen suddenly, but the most likely outcome for European social democracy is the one being secretly contemplated on the Labour backbenches: a fusion with liberalised conservatism.
(20) The genius of a democracy governed by the rule of law, our democracy, is that it both empowers the majority through the ballot box, and constrains the majority, its government, so that it is bound by law.” Turnbull added: “Why does Daesh [another term for Islamic State] hate us?
Plebiscite
Definition:
(n.) A vote by universal male suffrage; especially, in France, a popular vote, as first sanctioned by the National Constitution of 1791.
Example Sentences:
(1) If we were to have a plebiscite before the end of the year, and you were to reverse-engineer that, it would make interesting speculation about the timing of an election.” Abetz said in January he would need to see whether a plebiscite was “above board or whether the question is stacked” before deciding to heed any result in favour of marriage equality.
(2) And, like Faulkner, Ruddick sees democratisation as the remedy – he wants electorate plebiscites for lower house preselections and statewide plebiscites for the upper house.
(3) The SNP can now contend that it is not they who are the reckless parochialists To an extent that is not widely appreciated, Nicola Sturgeon’s decision to go for broke by calling for a fresh plebiscite represents a dramatic shift in her strategy.
(4) I can’t see they’d be able to ameliorate this.” Malcolm Turnbull’s quest for power leaves him at odds with the electorate | Peter Lewis Read more Xenophon said the aspects of the plebiscite that troubled him were the cost, the amount of “national oxygen” spent on the issue and its non-binding nature.
(5) It’s more to do with the politics within the Coalition rather than what I think the community wants, which is to get on with this issue to be dealt with where it ought to be dealt with – and I think that’s the fed parliament.” Asked if his party would pass the plebiscite enabling legislation, Xenophon replied: “Right now it’s a no.
(6) But the point of focusing on achieving a clear majority in parliament is to reduce the possibility of a plebiscite,” he said.
(7) A spokesman for Tasmanian crossbench senator Jacqui Lambie said she would support going ahead with the marriage equality plebiscite if it was run together with plebiscite questions on Indigenous recognition and euthanasia.
(8) Marriage equality could be a reality by end of the year, says George Brandis Read more The attorney general, George Brandis , told Sky News on Sunday the government’s mooted plebiscite on the issue would be held shortly after the 2016 election and before the end of the year.
(9) A Senate committee has warned the Turnbull government against a referendum or plebiscite on marriage equality, saying it is “squarely within the parliament’s power” to make a decision.
(10) The Coalition has yet to decide if the results of the plebiscite would be binding on its members.
(11) The treasurer, Scott Morrison, said the finer points of the plebiscite would be worked through in the usual way.
(12) But Abbott carefully kept open both the referendum and plebiscite options when he was asked a direct question about the preferred mechanism on Monday.
(13) One of the big flashpoints at the Liberal NSW state council meeting was a push by the Warringah conference to rewrite the party’s constitution to reflect John Howard’s proposal to introduce plebiscites involving all local members to decide on preselections in all state and federal seats.
(14) Australian Marriage Equality national director, Rodney Croome, said Shelton’s comments in the blog “expose the real agenda behind his group’s advocacy for a plebiscite which was to delay marriage equality and take it off the agenda”.
(15) Opinion polls consistently suggest Australians support marriage equality, but the plebiscite question has yet to be framed and parliament’s attitude to that vote has yet to be properly established.
(16) Irish voters are set to back the introduction of marriage equality by a margin of as much as two-to-one next week and become the first country to approve the policy in a national plebiscite, a series of polls indicated on Saturday.
(17) The reports of McEwan’s comments on Brexit, originally in English, also varied, with El Mundo saying McEwan had criticised “hasty decisions made through a plebiscite, which remind me of the Third Reich” , while El Confidencial reported him saying : “Brexit has been a real disaster, and I feel bad because we are a parliamentary democracy and I don’t like these decisions adopted by plebiscite which remind me of the Third Reich.” Writing in the Guardian in July, McEwan voiced disbelief at the Brexit vote.
(18) Abbott claimed the “disposition” of the party was to have a referendum or plebiscite in the next term – even though only a handful of MPs had raised that idea.
(19) Greens senator, Janet Rice, won support to refer the issue of a same-sex marriage plebiscite to the legal and constitutional affairs committee in August.
(20) Labor and the Greens say plans to hold a plebiscite on same-sex marriage are “shambolic” and should be abandoned in favour of a parliamentary vote.