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Democracy - "Demo" or "Dem" means people in Greek and "Crat" means rule or ruler. Thus democracy means rule of the people.

The word "democracy" (Greek: δημοκρατια) combines the elements dêmos (δῆμος, which means "people") and krátos(κράτος, which means "force" or "power").

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