Because it appears so obvious to us that the exclusion of certain categories of people does not in any degree affect the democraticness of a political system, we feel it incumbent on us to include a reference to ‘justifiable exclusions’ in our definition of democracy.

a marauding band

If that a Pearl may in a Toads-head dwell, / And may be found too in an Oiſter-ſhell; / If things that promiſe nothing, do contain / What better is then Gold; who will diſdain / (That have an inkling of it,) there to look, / That they may find it?

...but they can be activated by a crisis, especially if it is accompanied by strong trillennial appeals.