Definition of "form of government" []

• The members of a social organization who are in power (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?"
• "The only corrective of what is corrupt in our present form of government will be the augmentation of the numbers in the lower house, so as to get a more agricultural representation, which may put that interest above that of the stock-jobbers."
• "But there was already existing a form of government which, if I am not mistaken, is generally termed a lordship, and this still remains in many places, both among"