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Autocracy vs Republic - What's the difference?

autocracy | republic |

As nouns the difference between autocracy and republic

is that autocracy is a form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual while republic is a state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy.

autocracy

English

(wikipedia autocracy)

Noun

(autocracies)
  • A form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual.

    • Synonyms

    * bigmanism * despotism * dictatorship * monarchy * tyranny

    Related terms

    * autocrat * autocratic * autocratically

    Hypernyms

    * totalitarianism

    republic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * republick (obsolete) * republique (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy.
  • :
  • *
  • *:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps?? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic??”
  • (lb) A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branches of government are separate.
  • *1795 , (Immanuel Kant),
  • *:Republicanism is the political principle of the separation of the executive power (the administration) from the legislative; despotism is that of the autonomous execution by the state of laws which it has itself decreed.. None of the ancient so-called "republics " knew this system, and they all finally and inevitably degenerated into despotism under the sovereignty of one, which is the most bearable of all forms of despotism.
  • One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.
  • :

    • Derived terms

    * maritime republic * republican * republicanism

    See also

    * commonwealth * (wikipedia "republic")

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