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Demagogy

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The Bahá'í Administrative Order cannot degenerate into demagogy as with man-made institutions based on the Aristotelian standard forms of government (monarchy, aristocracy, democracy)[edit]

"Whereas this Administrative Order cannot be said to have been modeled after any of these recognized systems of government, it nevertheless embodies, reconciles and assimilates within its framework such wholesome elements as are to be found in each one of them. The hereditary authority which the Guardian is called upon to exercise, the vital and essential functions which the Universal House of Justice discharges, the specific provisions requiring its democratic election by the representatives of the faithful--these combine to demonstrate the truth that this divinely revealed Order, which can never be identified with any of the standard types of government referred to by Aristotle in his works, embodies and blends with the spiritual verities on which it is based the beneficent elements which are to be found in each one of them. The admitted evils inherent in each of these systems being rigidly and permanently excluded, this unique Order, however long it may endure and however extensive its ramifications, cannot ever degenerate into any form of despotism, of oligarchy, or of demagogy which must sooner or later corrupt the machinery of all man-made and essentially defective political institutions."

(Shoghi Effendi, World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 154)

Care must be taken for an international order to avoid degenerating into demagogy[edit]

"Extraordinary care must be taken in designing the architecture of the international order so that it does not over time degenerate into any form of despotism, of oligarchy, or of demagogy corrupting the life and machinery of the constituent political institutions."

(Turning Point for All Nations, at https://bahai-library.com/uhj_turning_point_nations#n10 )

See also[edit]

  • Democracy
  • Indirect elections
  • Ochlocracy
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