Ochlocracy

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OCHLOCRACY. A government where the authority is in the hands of the multitude; the abuse of a democracy. Vaumene, Dict. du Language Politique.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Mr Hague said: "However strong and understandable the emotions of those parents on the Portsmouth housing estate are, the resort to the rule of the mob is wrong.

Lock up child sex fiends for life, says Hague

'However strong and understandable the emotions of those parents on the Portsmouth estate are, the resort to the rule of the mob is absolutely wrong,' he said.

Hague calls for tougher penalties

THANKFULLY the rule of the mob has been defeated and the News of the World has been forced to climb down from their counter-productive 'Name and Shame' campaign.

Sunday Mail; A bunch of hypocrites

Here Klyucharyov travels back and forth through a hole in the ground between two worlds, the upper one lapsing into savagery and dominated by the anarchic rule of the mob, the lower one inhabited by remnants of the cultural elite who still possess many of the trappings of civilization but are surrounded by an aura of Gotterdammerung; significantly, it is always twilight both above and below ground.

Escape Hatch: Two Novellas

Human rights are threatened by succumbing to the rule of the mob as was witnessed in the recent Faizabad dharna, he said.