 | James Wilson - 1804 - 494 pages
...writers, no more than three regular forms of government were known and allowed. The first is that, in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a single person. This they denominated a monarchy. The second is that, in which the supreme power is... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1828 - 426 pages
...will, nay son. An aristocracy, which is sometimes called an oligarchy, (6Tle-gratsh-e) is that form in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a few of the nobility, who exercise it conjointly. The third form, you observed, said Horace, is a democracy:... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1834 - 1052 pages
...demiurge, or to creative power. DE-MOC'RA-CY, n. [Gr. fnitotfaria.] Government by the iwople ; a form of government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the people collectively, or in which the people exercise the powers of legislation. DEM'O-CKAT, it.... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1835 - 316 pages
...an oligarchy, which is by some thought to be the worst of all governments. 3. A monarchy ; which is a state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a single person. Such a state is Usually called a kingdom, or an empire. This name is generally given... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1836 - 332 pages
...which is by come thought to be the worst of all governments. 43. (3.) A monarchy; which is a form of government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a •ingle person. Such a state is usually called a kingdom, or an empire. This name is generally given to a large •tate... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1838 - 104 pages
...call of Abram — which happened in the two thousand and eightythird year of the world. * Monarchy, government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a single man. CHAPTER IV. Abram called — His character — Destruction of Sodom — Joseph in Egypt... | |
 | 1844 - 888 pages
...Bailey, 1730. "Republic : A Commonwealth, a free State." — Bailey, 1782. "Republic: A Commonwealth — A State or Government in which the supreme power is lodged in more than one." — Jlsh, 1775. 7 Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws, 1750, defines a Republic to be, " a... | |
 | Alfred Radford Symonds - 1845 - 430 pages
...neither animal nor vegetable. MONARCHY, from the Greek /uorij, single, and «PX», a gorernment, is a state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a single individual. MONSOON— see page 22— it is of Hindoo origin. MOOR, signifies a tract of wet... | |
 | John Craig (F.G.S.) - 1849 - 1148 pages
...act the monarch ; — ra to rule ; to gorern ; to convert into a monarchy. MONARCHY, mon'nr-ke, *. A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a single person ; a kingdom ; an empire. MOVAUDA, mo-nar'da, s. (in honour of Nic. Monarda.) A genus... | |
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Government by the people; a form of government, in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the people collectively, or in which the people exercise the powers of legislation. 
