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n. A government ruled by or subject to religious authority.

n. A state so governed.

n. Government under the control of a Church or state-sponsored religion.

n. Rule by God.

n. Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity.

n. The state thus governed, as the Hebrew commonwealth before it became a kingdom.

n. A form of government in which God is recognized as the supreme civil ruler of the state, and his laws are taken as the statute-book of the kingdom.

n. A state so governed: usually applied, with the definite article, to the Jewish commonwealth from the time of its organization under Moses until the inauguration of the monarchy under Saul.

n. a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)

n. the belief in government by divine guidance

"The fact that a good portion of the Republican base wants to turn the United States into a theocracy is another (and even from a purely pragmatic view of history, which theocracies exactly do we want to emulate?)"

political theory    political orientation    ideology   

aristocracy    autocracy    bureaucracy    democracy    hypocrisy   

secularism    sacerdotalism    suffragette    torture    deism