governed

[govĀ·ern]

The body of people who are citizens of a particular government

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Noun
the body of people who are citizens of a particular government; "governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed"--Declaration of Independence


imp. & p. p.
of Govern


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Usage Examples

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

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Other Usage Examples

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

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