What is the difference between commonwealth and republic?
commonwealth | republic |
A form of government, named for the concept that everything that is not owned by specific individuals or groups is owned collectively by everyone in the governmental unit, as opposed to a state , where the state itself owns such things.
Approximately, a republic.
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.
:
As nouns the difference between commonwealth and republic
is that commonwealth is a form of government, named for the concept that everything that is not owned by specific individuals or groups is owned collectively by everyone in the governmental unit, as opposed to a state, where the state itself owns such things 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.As a proper noun Commonwealth
is the Commonwealth of Nations, a loose confederation of nations based around the former British Empire.commonwealth
English
(wikipedia commonwealth)Noun
(en noun)- May 19, 1649' ''Be it declared and enacted by this present Parliament and by the Authoritie of the same That the People of England and of all the Dominions and Territoryes thereunto belonging are and shall be and are hereby constituted, made, established, and confirmed to be a '''Commonwealth''' and free State]] And shall from henceforth be Governed as a '''Commonwealth and Free State by the supreame Authoritie of this Nation, the Representatives of the People in Parliam[ent] and by such as they shall appoint and constitute as Officers and Ministers under them for the good of the People and that without any King or House of Lords. [[s:An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth, Act of the Long Parliament.