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democratic revolution

Noun

Meaning

democratic revolution (plural democratic revolutions)

A revolution in which a democracy is instituted, replacing a previous non-democratic government, or a revolution which is brought about through democratic means, usually without violence.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives. Fidel Castro

People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don't vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution. Tony Benn

The establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a watershed event in the global democratic revolution. George W. Bush

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. John W. Campbell

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