unelected

Adjective

Meaning

unelected (comparative more unelected, superlative most unelected)

Not elected

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Examples

We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected Judiciary inferior to Congress or the President in making policy judgments. That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country. Alberto Gonzales

"God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers? Bill Bailey

I believe the family is the foundation of America -- and that we must fight to protect and strengthen it. I believe in the sanctity of human life. I believe that people and their elected representatives should make our laws, not unelected judges. Mitt Romney

All strategical decisions in France are made by a non-French unelected oligarchy. The French political stage is a puppet theater, which explains the growing lack of interest for politics, among the French people. François Asselineau

A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers does not deserve to be called a democracy. Antonin Scalia

Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom. George W. Bush

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