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republic | unrepublican |

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 an adjective unrepublican is

not republican; contrary to the spirit of a republic.

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")

    External links

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    unrepublican

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not republican; contrary to the spirit of a republic
  • *{{quote-book, year=1867, author=, title=Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader, chapter=Prophetic Voices About America, edition= citation
    • , passage=It is easy to see that empire obtained by force is unrepublican and offensive to that first principle of our Union according to which all just government stands only on the consent of the governed. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1890, author=John Fiske, title=Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Besides, it was something that had been unpopular in ancient Greece and Rome, and it was thought to be essentially unrepublican in principle. }}

    Synonyms

    *undemocratic