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If there is a word that is still used and abused today, it is democracy, one of the most deeply rooted concepts in civilized history.
Various definitions of the term have been given. But the most universal is that of Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Proclamation of 1861: "Government of the people, by the people and for the people." Hence those that appear in dictionaries have been derived: it is the system in which the people intervene or participate in the government of society.
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