Especially would it seem rash to anyone looking on from the point of view of an undemocratic nation, and therefore prone to see the surface fluctuations of excitement and shifting clamor.
It would mean a relinquishment of all those undemocratic institutional survivals out of which international grievances are wont to arise.
If (as is far more common in this singularly undemocratic age) it is owned by one man, let that one man's name be printed on the paper, if possible in large red letters.
The only foundation I can find for this fancy is the highly undemocratic idea that a peasant girl could not possibly have any ideas of her own.
Now the God of peace, who raised up our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead, multiply his peace upon you, and preserve you to his everlasting kingdom by Jesus Christ.
In expressing his views upon this all-important subject, Bunyan was simply guided by a sense of duty.
This is regarded as undemocratic for the reason that democracy has come to mean a series of elections.
Undemocratic Character at the Opening of the Nineteenth Century.
There is maintained under it one of the most antiquated and undemocratic electoral systems in Europe.
In its actual workings it is one of the most undemocratic in Europe.
From internal evidence one saw that they were not particularly logical people, for they made much play, in their announcements, with "democratic principles" in spite of the undemocratic fog in which they wrapped themselves.
The relation of a man giving a tip and a man accepting it is as undemocratic as the relation of master and slave.
The European waiters have multiplied the tip-giving propensity in America and have established their undemocratic sovereignty over our public hospitality.
The Puritan conscience allowed that institution to grow to formidable proportions before arousing itself decisively, and it has allowed this equally undemocraticcustom to attain national ramifications.
The legal Union was being threatened precisely because American national integrity was being gutted by an undemocratic institution.
How did the Democratic political system of Jefferson and Jackson issue in undemocratic inequalities?
The issue was created by the legal existence in the United States of an essentially undemocratic institution.
Sidenote: Undemocratic Character of Parliament] As we have seen in an earlier chapter [Footnote: See above, pp.
These proud gentlemen were mainly landlords, and as a class they were almost as selfish and undemocratic as the courtiers of France.
It worries me to see the Institute dragged into politics, but it is my duty to resist this undemocratic movement.
Several journals declared unequivocally that it would become the duty of the party to withdraw its support from Governor Lyons in case he allowed this undemocratic measure to become law.
This undemocratic partiality, although timidly exercised, aroused to activity the never-slumbering hostility of these local concerns.
The suffrage upon which the elections were to be based was most undemocratic and unjust, giving to the landlords and the prosperous peasants, together with the wealthy classes in the cities, an enormous preponderance in the electorate.
Tchcheidze knew that the Duma had been elected upon a most undemocratic suffrage and that it did not and could not represent the masses of the peasants and wage-workers.
Any such attempt would have disclosed altogether too clearly the undemocratic reactionary character of the proposed government and thus have prevented its adoption.
The exercise of this power can be justified here only on the ground that it is indispensable as a means of preserving and perpetuating the undemocratic character of the Constitution.
In the United States at the present time we are trying to make an undemocratic Constitution the vehicle of democratic rule.
In fact, the main effort of our constitutional writers would appear to be to give to the undemocratic eighteenth-century political ideas a garb and setting that would in a measure reconcile them with the democratic point of view.
But undemocratic as the system was, it was not sufficiently undemocratic to suit the framers of the Constitution.
Still, with all due allowance for these favoring conditions, it is hard to find a satisfactory explanation of the process by which the worshipers of democracy came to deify anundemocratic constitution.
Tyranny in the eighteenth century was associated in the minds of the people with an undue extension or abuse of the powers exercised by the undemocratic central government.
And just as we are undemocratic in faith and morals, so we are, by the very nature of our attitude in such matters, undemocratic in the tone of our practical politics.
But above all we are undemocratic in our literature, as is proved by the torrent of novels about the poor and serious studies of the poor which pour from our publishers every month.
The thing which is really undemocratic and unfraternal is not to expect the butler to be more or less divine.
Everything in our age has, when carefully examined, this fundamentally undemocratic quality.
There is nothing, for instance, particularly undemocratic about kicking your butler downstairs.
The thing which is really undemocratic and unfraternal is to say, as so many modern humanitarians say, "Of course one must make allowances for those on a lower plane.
We are undemocraticin our government, as is proved by our innocent attempt to govern them well.
All things considered indeed, it may be said, without undue exaggeration, that the really undemocraticand unfraternal thing is the common practice of not kicking the butler downstairs.
In his enthusiasm for these undemocratic measures, Dr.
For Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, Delaware, are not only governed by antiquated and undemocratic constitutions, but are so small that wholesale bribery or a system of public doles is easily possible.
Moreover, if the capitalists (large and small) are ever in danger of losing the Senate, they have only to annex Mexico to add half a dozen or a dozen new States with limited franchises and undemocratic constitutions.
A strike by workmen in a particular business is a holdup of all the other workmen in the country, raises the cost of living for everybody, and is undemocratic and unfair.
A lockout of employers in a particular business is a holdup of all other employers and workmen, and is undemocratic and unfair.
The Constitution of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic stamps it as the most undemocratic and oligarchic of the great modern nations.
There was not even the shadow of a pretense that the Provisional Government was either undemocratic or unrepresentative.
Under an undemocratic government the people rely upon their rulers; in a democracy they must rely upon their own joint efforts.
The opponents of commission government maintain, on the other hand, that the plan is undemocratic and oligarchical because it centralizes great power in the hands of a small group.
He cited the waste of manpower the amendment would bring about and reminded his colleagues of the international criticism the armed forces had endured in the past because of undemocratic social practices.
Our eyes are being opened to the diametrical difference between democratic and undemocratic education.
In the moment of our temptation to undemocratic short cuts in education, we shall henceforth look to the Germany of yesterday and today, and shall be strengthened to resist.
The contrast between democratic and undemocratic types of education is as great with respect to religion as with respect to the rest of life.
Such education is more difficult, of course, than education of the undemocratic type.
It is no more undemocratic than the Renaissance was inartistic, the Reformation unchristian, or the French Revolution anarchical.
Perhaps indirect election is only undemocratic when the function of the lower body is mainly to elect to a higher, but becomes democratic when it has vital functions of its own that are merely controlled by the higher body.
This is a mistake, for the difference is essential and illustrates the undemocratic character of woman suffrage.
Under the transported aristocracy of churchly power in the state, they shared the undemocratic rule.
In fact, it is well to remember that this German illustration only proves that Socialism, instead of being democratic, is essentially undemocratic in its effects.
The fact is that in an undemocratic and feudal State such as Germany then was, and still largely is, respect for the personality of the individual is confined to the upper ranks of society.
For Germany the result of the Conference was the reestablishment, in smaller numbers and with larger units of territory, of the old undemocratic principalities, and of a Confederation embodying their dynastic interests.
I entirely agree with Mr. Shaw's denunciation of secret diplomacy and undemocraticcontrol of foreign policy.
As for the undemocratic control of foreign policy, a strong point about our policy on the eve of the war is that it was dictated by public opinion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undemocratic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
