Definition of "ochlocratic" []

• Pertaining to ochlocracy. (adjective)

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• "A false democracy ever tends to become ochlocratic, and the only safeguard against such a state of conditions arising in a country where representative government exists is the spread of higher education, and the inculcation of a right conception of the nature and functions of the State and of the duties of citizenship."
• "The inevitable result of democracyand particularly is this noticeable in the case of a democracy semi-ochlocratic-is a system of cast-iron bureaucracy in which everything is subordinated to some futile red-tapeish procedure."
• "Thus, we await that ochlocratic level of impatience that brings about the tyrant."