A government of the people by the people for the people?

Democracy?

No Democracy means all citizens have equal say.

And because Lincoln was talking in the Gettysburg Address about the United States of America, he was talking about a democratic republic not a democracy. A government of the people by the people for the people is in fact a statement of the very essence of the American form of Government a four part democratic republic with a civil authority, and three government branches Judicial, Legislative, and Executive. By the people we vote for delegates, of the people offices held by citizens, for the people, in the interests of the constitutionally protected freedoms of each resident of the USA