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- noun political science Plural form of
demos . The common populaces of several states.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In order to reconstitute the community as sovereign, Held argues that the demoi must submit to the will of the global demos: “cosmopolitan law demands the subordination of regional, national and local sovereignties to an overarching legal framework.”
Jürgen Habermas Bohman, James 2007
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Athenians demoi: and they assume that comedians were so named not from komazein, ‘to revel,’ but because they wandered from village to village (kata komas), being excluded contemptuously from the city.
Poetics 2002
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Athenians demoi: and they assume that comedians were so named not from komazein, ‘to revel,’ but because they wandered from village to village (kata komas), being excluded contemptuously from the city.
Poetics 2002
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-- In demoi huius argumenti ita verfatur atidor,, tit roli in regna Hifpaniae afferens, primum '
Bibliotheca historica. A.I.G. Meuselio ita digesta ut pæne novum opus videri possit 1793
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