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Democratic

adjective

Characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality. "A democratic country" , "A democratic scorn for bloated dukes and lords"

Belong to or relating to the Democratic Party.

Representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large. Synonym: popular. "A democratic or popular movement" , "Popular thought" , "Popular science" , "Popular fiction"

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"Democratic" Quotes from Famous Books

... and who played the peacock in your dress-coat, embroidered in silver, before an imposing line of horned creatures; be honest and admit, that, at the time when you opposed the official candidates in your democratic journal, you had your pipe in the rack of the Cafe de Seville, with your name in white enamel upon the blackened bowl! Remember, Monsieur le Depute, you who voted against all the exemption cases of the military ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... the Democratic side of the Chamber, well to its front sat the Hon. William R. Morrison of Illinois. By virtue of his position as Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means he was the traditional leader of the House. Possessing little of ...

— Something of Men I Have Known - With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective • Adlai E. Stevenson

... relate, the old Clarke party became the Union party, and in 1840 was the Democratic party. The Crawford party became the States Rights party, and in 1840 was the Whig party. Such was the evolution ...

— Stories Of Georgia - 1896 • Joel Chandler Harris

... of the line who were not "facing West" were with one accord hopeful of speedy recovery, not that they might "save their own skin" and get back home alive, but that they might get back into the fight and help to put forever out of commission that devilish military machine that had threatened the democratic ...

— The Fight for the Argonne - Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man • William Benjamin West

... recognized by Montesquieu: democratic, aristocratic, monarchical, and despotic. The principle of democracy he holds to be virtue, without which popular government cannot continue to exist.[Footnote: Montesq., iii. 122 (liv. iii. c. 3).] An aristocratic state needs less virtue, because the people is kept in check ...

— The Eve of the French Revolution • Edward J. Lowell

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