Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Demos

(King). The electorate; the proletariat. Not the mob, but those who choose and elect our senators, and are therefore the virtual rulers of the nation.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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