Definition of "mobocracy" [mob•oc•ra•cy]

• Political control by a mob. (noun)
• The mass of common people as the source of political control. (noun)

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• "Keep dreaming and start paying the maximum rate with no deductions because soon enough if you have any form of income you by virtue of the mobocracy will be the rich guy."
• "It was also believed that an excess of democracy, commonly referred to as mobocracy, was a contributing factor and the Canadian system was thus deliberately made less democratic with institutions such as the appointed Senate and powers of the British appointed Governor-General, who until the 1931 Statute of Westminster was an official of the United Kingdom government."
• "Many of the framers of the Constitution feared what they called "mobocracy," a pejorative euphemism for democracy."