Democracy vs. Monarchy
Difference Between Democracy and Monarchy
Democracynoun
Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
Monarchynoun
Government by a monarch.
Democracynoun
A political or social unit that has such a government.
Monarchynoun
A state ruled or headed by a monarch.
Democracynoun
The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
Monarchynoun
A government in which sovereignty is embodied within a single, today usually hereditary head of state (whether as a figurehead or as a powerful ruler).
Democracynoun
Majority rule.
Monarchynoun
The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
Democracynoun
The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.
Monarchynoun
A form of government where sovereignty is embodied by a single ruler in a state and his high aristocracy representing their separate divided lands within the state and their low aristocracy representing their separate divided fiefs.
Democracynoun
(uncountable) Rule by the people, especially as a form of government; either directly or through elected representatives (representative democracy).
Monarchynoun
an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority
Democracynoun
A government under the direct or representative rule of the people of its jurisdiction.
Democracynoun
(uncountable) Belief in political freedom and equality; the "spirit of democracy".
Democracynoun
the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives
Democracynoun
a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
Democracynoun
the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
