AUTHORITARIAN REGIME Antonyms

• the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts

• the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments

• the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives

• a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

• the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group

• the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality

• the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government)

• the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality

• the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status

• a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced

• the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints

• immunity from an obligation or duty

• a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail

• freedom from control or influence of another or others

• the successful ending of the American Revolution

• the quality of being individual

• a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence

• the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs

• immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence

• freedom of choice

• personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression

• leave granted to a sailor or naval officer

• an act of undue intimacy

• without obstructions to passage or view

• characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive

• willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas)

• the act of sharing in the activities of a group

• the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.)

• a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated

• the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements

• the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time

• government of a political unit by its own people

• government free from external control

• royal authority; the dominion of a monarch

• the authority of a state to govern another state

• the theological doctrine that all people will eventually be saved