plebiscitary

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True, the change was one of dynasty only, not of regime_, albeit Louis-Philippe posed rather as a plebiscitary monarch.

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  1. Pertaining to or of the nature of a plebiscite. The plebiscitary confirmation makes the reform illusory. The Nation, May 12, 1870, p. 297.

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  • True, the change was one of dynasty only, not of regime , albeit Louis-Philippe posed rather as a plebiscitary monarch. —  Balzac
  • Roosevelt went even further, championing a plebiscitary democracy with fewer constitutional checks. —  Claremont.org
  • Fears were repeatedly expressed that here could be the makings of an authoritarian system of rule distinct from, but genetically related to, the nation's previous experience of plebiscitary power. —  London Review of Books
  • Italian propagandistic slogans included: War is to man as childbirth is to woman, and Better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep. anti-socialist, anti-Marxist thrust aimed at the destruction of working class organizations and their Marxist political philosophy fixation on a charismatic, plebiscitary, legitimized leader Manichean demonization of enemies, aliens, impure races, and barbaric others fetishizes technology as the futuristic solution to age-old ills —  Clipmarks | Live Clips
  • True, the change was one of dynasty only, not of regime_, albeit Louis-Philippe posed rather as a plebiscitary monarch. —  Balzac
 

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