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So appealing to these ideas of what a democracy is and what elected representation means are just ignoring the question: in the way Malaysians have experienced "democracy" in Malaysia, are crossovers ethical?

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  1. noun Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
  2. noun A political or social unit that has such a government.
  3. noun The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.

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  • "The manner of communication in a democracy should be as per the dignity of democracy," he said. —  Zee News : India National
  • "Citizens in a democracy are all supposed to have an equal share in that democracy, so we ought to act like it." —  Seeing the Forest
  • So appealing to these ideas of what a democracy is and what elected representation means are just ignoring the question: in the way Malaysians have experienced "democracy" in Malaysia, are crossovers ethical? —  reduced and recycled
  • The validity of colonial expansion even for a democracy is a manifest deduction from the foregoing political principles, always assuming that the people whose independence is thereby diminished are incapable of efficient national organization. —  The Promise of American Life
  • The movement in American democracy which is most conspicuous is the effort to get that will accurately and immediately expressed--that is, a movement toward what might be called more democracy--toward a direct control of "politics" by the people--and that movement has had its rise and strength in the Mississippi Valley and beyond But who are the people who are to control? —  The French in the Heart of America
 

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  1. French démocratie, from Late Latin dēmocratia, from Greek dēmokratiā : dēmos, people; see dā- in Indo-European roots + -kratiā, -cracy.

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  1. Formerly democraty, democratie; from Old French democratie, French démocratie(t pron. s) = Spanish Portuguese democracia = Italian democrazia = D. G. demokratie = Danish Swedish demokrati, from Greek δημοκρατία, popular government (cf. δημοκρατεῖσθαι, have popular government), from δη̄μος, the people, + κρατεῑν, rule, be strong, from κράτος, strength, from κρατν/ς, strong, = Goth, hardus = English hard, q. v.
 

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