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DEMOCRACY

Democracy is the rule of a people by the people themselves; that form of government in which the sovereignty of the state is vested in the people, and exercised by them either directly, as in the small republics of ancient Greece, or indirectly, by means of representative institutions, as in the constitutional states of modern times. The term is also applied in a collective sense to the people or populace, especially the populace regarded as rulers.
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