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Republic vs Confederacy - What's the difference?

republic | confederacy |

As a noun 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 confederacy is

(historical) the informal name for the , the collection of american states that seceded from the united states in 1861, and fought against the union in the american civil war.

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.
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  • *:“[…] 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.
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    • Derived terms

    * maritime republic * republican * republicanism

    See also

    * commonwealth * (wikipedia "republic")

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    confederacy

    English

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (confederacies)
  • an alliance