PLANTOCRACIES Antonyms

• dominance through threat of punishment and violence

• a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

• a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

• an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government.

• a privileged class holding hereditary titles

• the most powerful members of a society

• a political system governed by a single individual

• a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual

• 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

• an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority

• a political system governed by a few people

• a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)

• the belief in government by divine guidance