Sentence examples for mobocracy from inspiring English sources
noun
Rule or control by the mob (or by the mass of ordinary people); a mob as a politically powerful force.
Such a form of government differs from the rule of one (by a monarchy or by a tyrant), of the ambitious, self-interested, or greedy few (oligarchy or timocracy), or of the many (democracy or mobocracy).
I don't like this mobocracy that gets to decree who rules".
There is in Perot's idea a whiff of mobocracy, a formula ripe for demogogery, the aura of quasi-fascism.
By standing by, ministers are encouraging mobocracy to overwhelm the rule of law.
Turabi then reinvented himself as a democrat: a paradox, some noted, given that he had earlier mocked elections as "mobocracy that [empowers] a small group".
"The Supreme Court was created to be a barrier against 'mobocracy' — a reflection of the fear by the more-conservative founders that too much mob democracy could be a threat," she says".The first justices were considered the best-educated men in the country, the elitest of the elite.
