To call government thus constituted a democracy, is to insult the understanding of mankind.

Countess (angrily).By keeping him, you serve the democracy.

It was by such conduct as has been cited that those heroes of yore were wont to preserve us and give us liberty, while he took away all our liberty from us, so far as was in his power, destroyed the whole democracy, set up a despot in place of a consul, a tyrant in place of a dictator over us.

Mr. Chesterton preaches democracy in principle while condemning its mechanism and its workings with his accustomed vigour; the Adamses renounce democracy and all its works while offering no hint as to what could consistently take its place with any better chance of success, while the royalists excoriate it in unmeasured terms and preach an explicit return to monarchy.

Here were Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria, four monarchies dominated by the German government, fighting nearly all the democracies of the world, not considering Russia, which dropped out shortly before the United States effectively entered the war.

The resistance offered to the peace of Versaillesthat is, to disorganizationmay be claimed as a merit for the democratic parties, which, if they are loyally assisted by the States of the Entente, can not only develop themselves but establish a great and noble democracy.

In his eagerness to "make the world safe for democracy" he abandoned international democracy and became the advocate of international autocracy.

Democracy of method consists in a variable and uncertain sequence of devices which are supposed to achieve the democracy of ideal, but as a matter of fact have thus far usually worked in the opposite direction.

It was this constitutional government, recognized as sovereign by the Powers, that had determined to set its house in order, and in practise to replace absolute monarchy with something approaching democracy.

Our hopes, our hearts, our hands, are with those on every continent, who are building democracy and freedom.

Henceforth he became quite a different man: he no longer gave way to the people, and ceased to watch the breath of popular favor; but he changed the loose and licentious democracy which had hitherto existed, into a stricter aristocratic, or rather monarchical, form of government.

" Many of his efforts to describe in verse this democracy and this ideal beauty are impalpable and obscure.

Problems facing American democracy.

[Sidenote: How to govern a democracy.]

There is an analogy between these conditions and the political conditions that early led simple democracies to give way to representative governments.

[Sidenote:12] It became strikingly clear that Vespasian hated Helvidius Priscus not so much for personal affronts or on account of the friends that the man had abused as because he was a turbulent fellow that cultivated the favor of the rabble, was forever denouncing royalty and praising democracy.

If the bugles of Bonaparte raised the living populace of the passing hour, she could blow that yet more revolutionary trumpet that shall raise all the democracy of the dead.

Black reconstruction; an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880.

Demetrius Poliorcetes, son of Antigonus, arrives with a fleet at Athens, expels Demetrius Phalereus, and restores the democracy, the Athenians throw down Phalereus' statues and condemn him to death.

I recognize that public opinionoften temporarily uninformed but in the end generally rightdoes often save the democracies of the world from the selfish ends of self-seeking and misguided leadership; but, given noble and wise representatives, they work best when least influenced by the fleeting passions of the day.

Had you said a democracy there would have been some plausibility in using the word, though even then its application would have been illogical.

LAIDLER, HARRY W. Socializing our democracy.

Germany tried democracy: a political history of the Reich from 1918-1933.

But what proud nation will accept democracy as a gift from insolent conquerors?

Were he to win it would be the greatest catastrophe that has befallen democracy since the days of the Holy Alliance and its ascendancy.