In an Oligarchy, Voting is a Tool to Manufacture the Illusion of Consent
as well as disproportionate influence over electoral politics, policy making, and political culture. So defined, the term corresponds roughly with other terms such as plutocracy, aristocracy, oligarchy, and power elite. The idea of a ruling class...
Donald Trump promised to remove the H1B visa program and I support his policy. Now, as one of Trump’s biggest supporters, I’m having my free speech silenced by a tech billionaire for simply questioning the tech oligarchy. Elon has decided to retaliate by removing my blue check and de...
The fourth is, when the power is in the same hands as the other, but not under the control of law; and this sort of oligarchy exactly corresponds to a tyranny in monarchies, and to that particular species of democracies which I last mentioned in treating of that state: this has the par...
Commotions also arise in aristocracies, from there being so few persons in power (as we have already observed they do in oligarchies, for in this particular an aristocracy is most near an oligarchy, for in both these states the administration of public affairs is in the hands of a few; ...
We are faced today with echoes of the past — a Supreme Court that has moved sharply and unpopularly to the extreme right; an economy that is backsliding into ever-worsening oligarchy and is on the verge of a new recession; a world that is teetering on the brink of another global war....
“State Militia” which are controlled and limited by our friendly and benign state governments. Some liken the term to the National Guard, which is even further off the mark. “Militia,” in the Second Amendment, refers to self-declared and assembled, armed, private-citizen organizations. It...
However, no innovation took birth on their part of the understanding of regimes or governance, apart from Polybius’ version of the kyklos: monarchy–tyranny, aristocracy–oligarchy–democracy–ochlocracy–monarchy. This version appears to be a typical biological viewpoint on regimes, since it ...
[100] To distinguish the two charters, the term 'magna carta libertatum' ("the great charter of liberties") was used by the scribes to refer to the larger document, which in time became known simply as Magna Carta.[101][102] Great Charter of 1225 1225 version of Magna Carta issued ...
b.A long-term association of two or more animals of the same species, in which members cooperate for a purpose such as gaining access to mates or defending territory. 3.Close similarity in nature or type; affinity:the ancient alliance between mathematics and music. ...