noun (n)

• the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives(noun.cognition)

  source: wordnet30
• a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them(noun.group)

  Synonym:
  commonwealth, republic
  

  source: wordnet30
• the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group(noun.cognition)

  Synonym:
  majority rule
  

  source: wordnet30
• Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.(noun)

  source: webster1913