Democracy, n.: A government of the masses. Authority derived through
mass meeting or any other form of direct expression. Results in
mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic... negating property
rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall
regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion,
prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
-- U.S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25 (1928-1932), since withdrawn.
