DESPOTOCRACY 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 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 just or fair

• the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870

• judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments

• a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice

• 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

• government free from external control

• royal authority; the dominion of a monarch

• the authority of a state to govern another state