Sentences with phrase «from pure democracy»

Let us examine the points in which it varies from pure democracy, and we shall comprehend both the nature of the cure and the efficacy which it must derive from the Union.

This spectrum stretches from pure democracy, with majority rule, to representative democracies where a subset of the populace speaks for the whole.

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One of the primary reasons that our government was set up as a Democratic Republic (as opposed to a pure democracy) was to «protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority».

Irreligious and idolatrous cultures may take many forms, from the pure self - seeking of irresponsible individualism, through the various types of more or less organized pursuit of advantage, to the collectivistic autonomy of a totalitarian «people's democracy.»

From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.