1. (

• democracy

) the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives ;

2. (

• democracy ,
• republic ,
• commonwealth ,

) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them ;

3. (

• majority_rule ,
• democracy ,

) the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group ;