Sentence examples for states democracies from inspiring English sources

Pufendorf does not in principle prefer one regular form over another: God is the author of free states (democracies) and monarchies alike (DJN VII.5.5), and sovereignty or majesty belongs equally to all states and not just to monarchies (DJN VII.3.3).

Indeed, it reflects the deep technocratic tendencies in post-World War II Europe, with its heavily bureaucratized Brussels and its welfare-state democracies.

"They want to stop nation-state democracy".

It quotes a Kaplan newsletter from last June as stating: "Democracy is a system of ignorance.

Imagine the conundrums editors would face if the rebels in eastern Ukraine had called their quasi-state "Democracy".

If Scotland is ever to be a model small-state democracy, someone must call Salmond's bluff.

While American sympathies naturally lie with people who fall afoul of a police state, democracy is not something that can be imposed from without.

Whatever the laws of a state, democracy will struggle when wealthy elites and government officials are cemented together in this self-supporting arrangement.

The investigation "has surpassed all previous coup attempts and has been recorded as a betrayal to the state, democracy, and the nation," he said in an address to party members in early January.

The EU today is about the destruction of nation-state democracy.

To the extent that decision-making power migrates beyond the state, democracy should follow.