Blending of three forms of government

Letters

• https://bahai-library.com/uhj_messages_1986_2001#The_Bah%C3%A1%E2%80%99%C3%AD_Administrative_Order (as a separate document at https://bahai-library.com/uhj_democracy_administrative_order )

Specific forms

• Monarchy (constitutional) / Autocracy
  • Negative: Despotism
• Democracy
  • Negative: Demagogy/Ochlocracy
• Aristocracy/Republicanism
  • Negative: Oligarchy

Administrative Order to avoid objectionable features of three forms of government though it does blend its salutary truths and beneficial elements

"...The administrative order which lies embedded in the Teachings of Bahá'u'lláh, and which the American believers have championed and are now establishing, should, under no circumstances, be identified with the principles underlying present-day democracies. Nor is it identical with any purely aristocratic or autocratic form of government. The objectionable features inherent in each of these political systems are entirely avoided. It blends, as no system of human polity has as yet achieved, those salutary truths and beneficial elements which constitute the valuable contributions which each of these forms of government have made to society in the past...."

(Postscript written by the Guardian to a letter written on his behalf to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada, November 18, 1933: The National Spiritual Assembly, p. 26; in Lights of Guidance, no. 2)

See also

• Government
• Administrative Order

To-dos for this page

• Include from World Order of Bahá'u'lláh