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protected democracy

protected democracy noun: an antisocialist government that allows suffrage but places sovereignty in the army.

Noun

protected democracy (countable and uncountable, plural protected democracies)

  1. (euphemistic) An antisocialist government that allows suffrage but places sovereignty in the army.
    • Pinochet, the Times reported, said he is “a lover of liberty, a right to which all men are born.” But he had no confidence “in orthodox democracy. It was too easy to infiltrate and destroy.” (He knew of what he spoke.) So he favored “a protected democracy” with a strong political role for the...1986, Michael Parenti, chapter 10, in Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media, New York: St. Martin’s Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 181

Synonyms of protected democracy

Forms of protected democracy

pluralprotected democracies

Questions about protected democracy

What does protected democracy mean?
Protected democracy means an antisocialist government that allows suffrage but places sovereignty in the army.
What part of speech is protected democracy?
Protected democracy is a noun.
What is the plural of protected democracy?
The plural of protected democracy is protected democracies.

Words near protected democracy in the dictionary

  1. protected area
  2. protected areas
  3. protected cruiser
  4. protected cruisers
  5. protected democracies
  6. protected democracy
  7. protected membrane roof
  8. protected membrane roofs
  9. protected mode
  10. protected name
  11. protected sex

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