Critocracy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Critocracy is a noun meaning A system of rule by judges.
Meaning
A system of rule by judges.
More Meanings
- A system of rule by critics.
Example Sentences
One is driven to conclude that the authority to restrain democratic power under our constitutional order is reserved to the critocracy.
How can we fail to notice that what was once a federal republic, then more or less a mass democracy, has become a critocracy, a land where judges rule?
In the United States it may be called a Plutarchy or pure rule of money with a Critocracy or government by Judges because through the complicated machinery of checks and balances in the Constitution to prevent the people's rule .
The problem is that Authority is likely to be abused; and hence Enright's frequent attacks on the “critocracy,” on the fetish that has been made of Eliot's insistence on the importance of “tradition,” and on totalitarianism in general
Word Forms
- critocracies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include kritocracy, kritarchy, juristocracy, expertocracy, nomocracy, robocracy.
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