What is the difference between republic and empire?
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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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A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.
A group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to a foreign power.
A state ruled by an emperor.
An expansive and wealthy corporation.
As nouns the difference between republic and empire
is that 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 while empire is a political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.republic
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Alternative forms
* republick (obsolete) * republique (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* maritime republic * republican * republicanismSee also
* commonwealth * (wikipedia "republic")External links
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(wikipedia empire)Noun
(en noun)- the McDonald's fast food empire