plural democracies
Definition of democracy
1a
: government by the people
especially
: rule of the majority
2
: a political unit that has a democratic government
3
capitalized
: the principles and policies of the Democratic party in the U.S.
from emancipation Republicanism to New Deal Democracy— C. M. Roberts
4
: the common people especially when constituting the source of political authority
5
: the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges
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The first known use of democracy was in 1539
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