isocratic

Updated: May 19, 2025

Amiable demeanour, unmeasured magnanimity, and spotless integrity, could never carry off the unpardonable sin in which this lost sheep-owner wallowed the taint, namely, of isocratic principle. When a member of the classes takes to his bosom that unclean thing, in its naked reality, he thereby forfeits the title of 'gentleman, and becomes a mere man.

Joseph Furphy - Such Is Life

We have done more than could be expected, though not all which could be desired. At any rate, an isocratic polity a polity where every one votes, and where every one votes alike is, in a community of sound education and diffused intelligence, a conceivable case of Cabinet government. It satisfies the essential condition; there is a people able to elect, a Parliament able to choose.

Walter Bagehot - The English Constitution