demokratia

The Greek word demokratia asserted a fact and an aspiration: The people ( demos ) have the capacity ( kratos ) to make history.

Handing Out Knives to Madmen Josiah Ober 2011

The nation's Founders no longer wanted to be ruled by an exploitive foreign monarch and instead had in mind an experimental system of government never tried before in any form in the West outside of Athens in ancient Greece under their system of "demokratia" or rule by the entire body of Athenian citizens (or at least the non-slave adult male portion of it).

Thom Hartmann's New Book - Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class 2006

The nation's Founders no longer wanted to be ruled by an exploitive foreign monarch and instead had in mind an experimental system of government never tried before in any form in the West outside of Athens in ancient Greece under their system of "demokratia" or rule by the entire body of Athenian citizens (or at least the non-slave adult male portion of it).

Thom Hartmann's New Book - Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class 2006

The word democracy comes from the Greek demokratia: demos, or people, and - kratia which means to govern (from kratos, strength or power).

Democracy and Republic 2007

Their "experiment" was glorious, even flawed, and never before tried in the West in any form since its few decades of existence in ancient Athens under its system of "demokratia" or rule by the entire body of Athenian citizens - or at least the non-slave adult white male portion of it meaning a selective democracy for an elite minority excluding all others the way it's always been here.

The War on Free Expression 2007

Their "experiment" was glorious, even flawed, and never before tried in the West in any form since its few decades of existence in ancient Athens under its system of "demokratia" or rule by the entire body of Athenian citizens - or at least the non-slave adult white male portion of it meaning a selective democracy for an elite minority excluding all others the way it's always been here.

The War on Free Expression 2007

The Greeks felt united against all others, whom they called barbaroi, and practiced a form of political equality in that a marketplace assemblage of all the citizens (demokratia) made the laws and administered justice, as did the Germanic tribes a thousand years later.

EQUAL PROTECTION IN LAW MORRIS D. FORKOSCH 1968

So if you liked demokratia, it could mean People Power, but if you hated it - if, say, you were a member of the wealthy elite - then it could stand for the ancient Greek equivalent of Lenin's dictatorship of the proletariat.

The Guardian World News 2010

However, the ancient Greeks' demokratia was hugely different not just in scale but in kind from any modern political system that claims the title of "democracy".

The Guardian World News 2010

But surely political moves and contestations can take different directions; innovation and gaming evolve sometimes from another significant attribute in politics: vigilance-possibly another name for demokratia-originally the power of the people.

Kafila 2009