Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport

Affluent

• having an abundance of goods or riches

• important or essential

• justice according to natural law or right; specifically : freedom from bias or favoritism

• predicting or foreshadowing evil

existing or capable of existing independently

• Autonomous

• Affluent

• Crucial

• Prominent

Conducive

• tending to promote or assist

• important or essential

• energy or aptitude displayed in initiation of action

• predicting or foreshadowing evil

a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement

• Covenant

• Egalitarian

• Ominous

• Equity

Benevolent

• marked by or disposed to doing good

• being kept from possessing, enjoying, or using something especially of the necessities of life or of healthful environmental influences

• energy or aptitude displayed in initiation of action

• to aid or promote (someone or something, such as a private enterprise) with public money

important or essential

• Crucial

• Affluent

• Mores

• Ominous

Degenerate

• having sunk to a condition below that which is normal to a type

• being kept from possessing, enjoying, or using something especially of the necessities of life or of healthful environmental influences

• to lose drive or effectiveness

• predicting or foreshadowing evil

being kept from possessing, enjoying, or using something especially of the necessities of life or of healthful environmental influences

• Deprived

• Benevolent

• Faltered

• Subsidization

Despotism

• tyranny

• smaller representation of a larger model.

• to aid or promote (someone or something, such as a private enterprise) with public money

• existing or capable of existing independently

asserting, promoting, or marked by a belief in human equality, especially with respect to social, political, and economic affairs

• Egalitarian

• Equity

• Inflation

• Mores