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Which of the following personalities described democracy as “that form of government in which the ruling power of the state is veiled not in a particular class or classes but in the members of a community as a whole”?

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Abraham Lincoln

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John Robert Seeley

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Lord James Bryce

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Rousseau

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The correct option is C Lord James Bryce
Lord James Bryce was a British politician and historian who defined democracy as “that form of government in which the ruling power of the state is veiled not in a particular class or classes but in the members of a community as a whole”. His idea of democracy was inspired by a variety of revolutions that occurred in the post-medieval era.

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