Measured by present-day conventions of democracy, the Constitution is an undemocratic document.

The French foreign office is still undemocratic in tradition and temper.

This revolt against two of the most undemocratic of the features of the ancient and honored Constitution was almost like a second declaration of American independence.

It was in order to prevent, if possible, the United States from becoming sponsor for an undemocratic principle that I determined to lay my partial plan of organization before the President at the earliest moment that I believed it would receive consideration.

And yet they call Germany undemocratic!

This system, which became necessary in order to deal with the enormous mass of undigested matter which has overwhelmed every legislature as a result of the present chaotic and irresponsible procedure, is perhaps both the most undemocratic device ever put in practice by a democracy, and the most fruitful of venality, corruption and injustice.

For Germany the result of the Conference was the reestablishment, in smaller numbers and with larger units of territory, of the old undemocratic principalities, and of a Confederation embodying their dynastic interests.

The fact is that in an undemocratic and feudal State such as Germany then was, and still largely is, respect for the personality of the individual is confined to the upper ranks of society.

If they are the representatives of the British people and responsible to the democracy which sent them, how can they be expected to "accustom themselves to giving way"perhaps to a majority composed of the representatives of undemocratic governments?

Ardent antislavery men believed that this segregation in the schools was undemocratic.

Custom, and the casteI know no other wordjust the bull-headed, asinine, undemocratic caste that custom has built up.

It became customary to nominate candidates in such congressional caucuses, but there was much hostile comment upon the system as undemocratic.

They complained again that men in office showed an undemocratic fondness for aristocratic customs.

Here is it that aristocratic and undemocratic limitations hamper us the longest.

The small farmers who continued to dwell nearby included Dabney at first in their rustic social functions; but when he carried twenty of his slaves to a house-raising and kept his own hands gloved while directing their work, the beneficiary and his fellows were less grateful for the service than offended at the undemocratic manner of its rendering.

If (as is far more common in this singularly undemocratic age) it is owned by one man, let that one man's name be printed on the paper, if possible in large red letters.

The only foundation I can find for this fancy is the highly undemocratic idea that a peasant girl could not possibly have any ideas of her own.

When a large body of popular opinion accords him greatness, were he not undemocratic to affect humility and speak small? "I speak of common men," said Mr. Wilbram (this was at a Chamber of Commerce banquet); "of men whose living depends upon the pleasure of their superiors.

[-45-] Still, those measures, even if they seemed to them immoderate and out of the usual order, were not, so far, undemocratic.

In a democratic age he has insisted upon the undemocratic virtues of obedience, silence, and reverence.

And the result wassince all these matters act and reactthat the idea of authority from above in matters of religion was thought to be as 'undemocratic' as in matters of government and social life.

These provisions would seem strangely undemocratic if applied to a similar territory in our own day.

Not many of the more than 3,000,000 social-democratic voters in Germany before the war were members of the regular party organization; but they supported the party as the one unequivocal way to declare themselves against militarism and undemocratic class-government.

The notion that men in public life must receive and mingle with great masses of people, or run the risk of being called undemocratic, is a relic of the political dark ages.