democrat
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Democrat
A supporter of democracy; an advocate of democratic politics (originally as opposed to the aristocrats in Revolutionary France).
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Someone who rules a representative democracy.
2011, Wesley Yang, "Death, Dictators, and Democracy", ''NYU Alumni Magazine'', ISSN 1938-4823, issue 16, Spring 2011, page 10:
- Democrats have to please a large segment of the voting public and will be punished if they fail to provide public goods(..). In the case of autocrats, however, they have to please a small minority of the governing power elite(..) who will punish them if they fail to dedicate the public purse to their private enrichment.
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