AUTHORITARIANISM Antonyms

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

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

• immunity from an obligation or duty

• 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

• government of a political unit by its own people