人人有份的作風
把國家層級的精神縮小到日常的團體裡：公司、社團、班級只要是大家平等、共同決定，就可以用這個字。
equal say · noun · B2
A situation where everyone is treated as equal and has the right to vote and help make decisions.
民主（作風）
核心畫面
Picture the ballot box: the people decide who governs them. The word names that system, then the country that runs on it, and finally the same spirit shrunk down to any group where everyone has a say.
可以想成：一個投票箱——由人民決定誰來治理。這個字先指那套制度，接著指採用這套制度的國家，最後把同一種精神縮小到任何…更多收起
可以想成：一個投票箱——由人民決定誰來治理。這個字先指那套制度，接著指採用這套制度的國家，最後把同一種精神縮小到任何一個「每個人都有發言權」的團體裡。三個意思是同一件事的三種尺度：制度、國家、作風。From the picture
Also in this word
system of government · noun · B2
A way of running a country in which the people can vote to choose their leaders and government.
民主
democratic country · noun · B2
A country whose government has been chosen by its people through voting.
民主國家
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Democracyname
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obsoleteThe Democratic Party.
- I so adopt it because it furnishes a precise and an agreed starting point for a discussion between Republicans and that wing of the Democracy headed by Senator Douglas.
democracynoun/dɪˈmɒk.ɹə.si/
- 1
Rule by the people, especially as a form of government, such as
- And the essential value and power of Democracy consists in this,—that it combines, as far as possible, power and organization ; THE SPIRIT, MANHOOD, is at one with THE BODY, ORGANIZATION. [....] Democracy is Government by the People.
- The period, that is, which marks the transition from absolutism or aristocracy to democracy will mark also the transition from absolutist or autocratic methods of nomination to democratic methods.
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Rule by the people, especially as a form of government, such as:
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Rule by the people, especially as a form of government, such as:
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governmentA government under the direct or representative rule of the people of its jurisdiction.
- Of course, the Russians think it is something else because they say the Russians have a democracy and it is plain that their government is not what the Americans regard as a democracy.
- Since the wisest and most moral would not necessarily be the choice of the majority of people, Plato's Republic is not a democracy.
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A state with a democratic system of government.
- Some countries which were originally monarchies, like the UK, have maintained their status as monarchies whilst also becoming democracies in the modern era; others, like France, completely disposed of their monarchies when they became democracies.
- After almost four decades of authoritarian rule, South Africa became a democracy in April 1994.
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Belief in political freedom and equality; the "spirit of democracy".
- As states of the human spirit democracy, righteousness, and faith have much in common and may be cultivated by the same means...
- It must further be admitted that he provided a successful interpretation of democracy in its philosophic aspects when he conceived democracy as a general outlook on the universe... In Bakunin's conception of democracy as religious in character we trace the influence of French socialism.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。