Sentence examples for democratism from inspiring English sources

Thus, between the Shīʿite legitimism that restricts rule to ʿAlī's family and the Khārijite democratism that allowed rulership to anyone, even to "an Ethiopian slave," Sunnism held the position that "rule belonged to the Quraysh" (the Prophet's tribe)—the condition that actually existed.

They see neoconservatism as a particularly militaristic and noxious strain of a virus they call "Democratism" — a "messianic commitment" to spread democracy throughout the world, whether by precision-guided bombs or precision-guided words and dollars.