Antidemocratic

Word ANTIDEMOCRATIC
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Definitions and meanings of "Antidemocratic"

What do we mean by antidemocratic?

Opposed to the tenets of democracy.

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The word "antidemocratic" in example sentences

American ones, but also for nurturing "antidemocratic" thinking and attitudes they acquired from British writers. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Himmelberger said Brown supporters have resorted to an "antidemocratic" tactic by stealing signs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sanderson described the pope's comments as "antidemocratic" and accused him of interfering in Britain's political process. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But he reserved his greatest disdain for the pope and the rest of the priestly hierarchy, whose "antidemocratic" philosophy was alternatively ❋ Unknown (2010)

They'll spend all the money in the world on heroic interventions but are rather miserly in spending to prevent the need for them in the first place. cleek get ready to hear a lot more of the word "antidemocratic" ❋ Unknown (2009)

Second, recognizing that the Constitution is itself antimajoritarian lessens the concern that judicial review is antidemocratic. ❋ Erwin Chemerinsky (2010)

Judicial review has an antidemocratic quality in that unelected judges are invalidating the choice of popularly elected officials. ❋ Erwin Chemerinsky (2010)

The Constitution is thus profoundly antidemocratic in that it limits what the majority at any moment can do. ❋ Erwin Chemerinsky (2010)

The criticism of judicial review as being antidemocratic because it strikes down majoritarian decisions is based on a simplistic definition of democracy. ❋ Erwin Chemerinsky (2010)

But this argument ignores the fact that the Constitution itself is antidemocratic; any enforcement of the Constitution to strike down what a political majority wants also will be antidemocratic. ❋ Erwin Chemerinsky (2010)

Given time, the technological revolution would solve the perplexing problem of an antidemocratic China. ❋ Gideon Rachman (2011)

Only when the protests began on Jan. 25 did the White House and State Department begin to realize what a bad bargain they had struck, and the extent to which Mr. Mubarak and other antidemocratic leaders in the region have benefited from maintaining the impasse between the Israelis and Palestinians. ❋ Saad Eddin Ibrahim (2011)

The fear of communism instilled by the cold war contributed to the antidemocratic wave in Latin America in the 1960s. ❋ Gideon Rachman (2011)

Such theories reflect populist suspicion about the concentration of economic and political power, a suspicion "that can have violent, racist, and antidemocratic effects as well as salutary and democracy-enhancing ones on the political and social order, but a strain that is neither independent from nor necessarily threatening to the country's political institutions or political culture." ❋ John Feffer (2011)

Last year on a TV show called "Neutral Zone" the professor said that he believed Mr. Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party, known as AKP, would use every means, including "illegal and antidemocratic ones" to win the election. ❋ Marc Champion (2011)

Would he try to persuade Putin to liberalize politics, reversing the antidemocratic legislation of the previous years? ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)

Those who chose the strong leader were assumed to be antidemocratic. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)

A campaign of technocratic tinkering had nibbled away at some of the Putin era antidemocratic changes. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)

It said the loan will allow King Mswati's "corrupt, antidemocratic regime" a way out of the mess he created. ❋ Jenny Gross (2011)

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