Look up: republic

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   Republic
   Republic is a city in Republic County Kansas, USA Republic is a town in Ferry County Washington, USA Republic is a CDP in Fayette County Pennsylvania, USA Republic is a village in Seneca County Ohio, USA Republic is a city in Greene County Missouri, USA Republic is a township in Marquette County Michigan, USA
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   Republic
   A country without a king, queen or emperor. The people who rule it are elected. France, Italy and Germany are countries today which are republics.
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   republic
   [n] - a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch
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   republic
   Country where the head of state is not a monarch, either hereditary or elected, but usually a president, whose role may or may not include political functions. A republic may be an aristocracy,...
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   republic
   The word republic comes from the Latin res publica: public matter, or the affairs of the people. A state governed by an assembly of citizens rather than by a king, queen or emperor. The leaders are elected into power by the people. Rome was a republic between 510 BC and 27 BC
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   Republic
   Re·pub'lic noun [ French république , Latin respublica commonwealth; res a thing, an affair + publicus , publica , public. See Real , adjective , and Public .] 1. Common weal. [ Obsolete] B. Jonson. 2. A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by ...
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   republic
   1. Common weal. ... 2. A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf. Democracy. ... In some ancient states called republics the sovereign power was exercised by an hereditary aristocracy or a privileged few, constituting a government now distincti ...
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   Republic
   A `republic` is a state or country that is not led by a hereditary monarch, where the people of that state or country (or at least a part of that people) have impact on its government, and that is usually indicated as a republic. The detailed organization of republics' governments can vary widely. The first section of this article gives an overview of the distinctions that characterise different `types` of non-fictional republics. The second se...
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   Republic
   • (a.) A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf. Democracy, 2. • (a.) Common weal.
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    republic
    (from the article `Latin America, history of`) ...finding suitable European princes to rule their countries. Local figures, furthermore, lacked the necessary authority to be accepted as monarchs. ... The typical 13th-century city-state was a republic administering a territory of dependent towns; whether it was a democracy is a question ...
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    republic
    republic 1. A state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them. 2. Any body of people viewed as a commonwealth. 3. A state in which the head of government is not a monarch or other hereditary head of state. 4. When capitalized, any of the five peri...
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    Republic
    A variation of the federal style.
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    republic
    republic [Lat. res publica,=public affair], today understood to be a sovereign state ruled by representatives of a widely inclusive electorate. The term republic formerly denoted a form of government that was both free from hereditary or monarchical rule and had popular control of the state and a co...
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