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Definition of Form of government
1. Noun. The members of a social organization who are in power.
Generic synonyms: Social Group
Member holonyms: Party, Political Party, Political Entity, Political Unit
Specialized synonyms: Autarchy, Autocracy, Constitutionalism, Commonwealth, Democracy, Republic, Diarchy, Dyarchy, Gerontocracy, Gynarchy, Gynecocracy, Hegemony, Mobocracy, Ochlocracy, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Republic, Technocracy, Theocracy
Group relationships: Social Organisation, Social Organization, Social Structure, Social System, Structure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Form Of Government
Literary usage of Form of government
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1898)
"... proprietary charters contained more hints concerning the form of government
which should obtain in the province 1 The governmental rights of Baltimore ..."
2. The Elements of Moral Science by Francis Wayland (1856)
"If it be asked, Which of these is the preferable, form of government? the answer,
I think, must be conditional The best form of government for any people, ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"The Federal Constitution provides that "The United States shall guarantee to
every state in this Union a republican form of government" but it does not ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"The Act of March 14, 1920, amending a prior act so as to require an election on
the question of abandoning the commission form of government in a named city ..."
5. A History of the American People by Woodrow Wilson (1918)
"FIRST APPLICATION FOR A MUNICIPAL form of government, 1649 Peter Stuyvesant, ...
Conspicuous among the changes desired was a new form of government, ..."