democracy (n.)
- aristocracy
- autarchy
- autocracy
- autonomy
- collectivism
- colonialism
- commonwealth
- communion
- communism
- community
- cooperation
- dictatorship
- dyarchy
- federation
- gerontocracy
- hierarchy
- hierocracy
- kibbutz
- kolkhoz
- meritocracy
- militarism
- mobocracy
- monarchy
- neocolonialism
- ochlocracy
- oligarchy
- patriarchate
- patriarchy
- regency
- republic
- self-determination
- self-government
- socialism
- stratocracy
- technocracy
- theocracy
- triarchy
- triumvirate
- tyranny
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
Lycurgus the Lacedaemonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and those that were deformed more terrible. To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set up a democracy in your own house."
