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form of government

n. the members of a social organization who are in power [syn: political system]

Usage examples of "form of government".

France then might have returned to a Republican form of government, but such a step would not have been tolerated by Metternich.

I won't vote for a man whom I know to be an outright crook, or treasonable to our form of government, or, in my opinion, having some other moral defect so gross to make him a public menace in public office.

A change in the form of government, why should that make a difference in the way he lived?

It is possible that some among us have interpreted some relationships to indicate that the junta may be an unstable form of government, but there are other relationships that may easily be interpreted to show it is stable.

In fairness, most of the core worlds actually did practice that form of government, and every single member of the League embraced at least its facade, whatever the reality behind the outward appearance.

The order of his employments (it is marked by Capitolinus) well deserves to be set down, as expressive of the form of government and manners of the age.

And these two cases that he instances differ little from those above mentioned, to be destructive to governments, only that he has omitted the principle from which his doctrine flows, and that is the breach of trust in not preserving the form of government agreed on, and in not intending the end of government itself, which is the public good and preservation of property.