| 单词 | autocracy of the people |
| 释义 | > as lemmasautocracy of the people autocracy of the people n. now rare self-government; = autonomy n. 1a; (also) a self-governed state or society. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > autonomy > [noun] autonomy1591 self-governing1619 self-government1647 self-rulea1683 autarchy1691 autocracy of the people1792 self-management1809 self-control1812 self-governance1848 Home Rule1858 autonomism1867 merdeka1947 1792 Earl of Buchan Ess. Lives & Writings Fletcher & Thomson 214 A free constitution of government, or what I would beg leave to call the autocracy of the people, is the panacea of moral diseases. 1800 J. Barlow Lett. from Paris, to Citizens U.S.A. ii. 52 Pure democracy, or the immediate autocracy of the people, is unfit for a great state. 1887 Bk. News (Philadelphia) Sept. 29/1 New York has become a city of absolute Communism, and the author depicts the oppression of an autocracy of the people. 1920 G. S. Lee Ghost in White House i. viii. 31 Democracy is autocracy of the people, for the people, by the people—that is, by the people in spirit to their representatives who express their spirit. < as lemmas |
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