republic

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  1. noun A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
  2. noun A nation that has such a political order.
  3. noun A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
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  • The most dangerous period for our republic will be the first two years of the Obama Presidency when the same party controls both the executive and the legislative branches. —  ROFASix
  • In a modern state of 300 million people, the Jeffersonian 'yeoman farmer' model of the republic is a fantasy that, if it ever was true, hasn't been so for more than 100 years. —  Red Mass Group - Front Page
  • In the North, the indefinite toleration of slave laws for the good of the Union cannot put down the belief that the republic is a participant in a primal crime. —  Claremont.org
  • Thus, the republic was a form of government those who were meeting in Philadelphia well understood, in which sovereignty resides with the people who elect agents to represent them in the political decision-making process. —  FindLaw Writ - Recent Articles
  • The statement notes that the official language of the republic is Turkish and says the tie between citizens and the state stems from everyone being a Turk. —  TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News
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  1. French république, from Old French, from Latin rēspūblica : rēs, thing; see rē- in Indo-European roots + pūblica, feminine of pūblicus, of the people; see public.

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  1. Early modern English also republick, republique (=D. republick =G. Danish Swedish republik); from Old French republique, French république =Spanish república =Portuguese republica =Italian republica, repubblica, from L. res publica, properly two words, but commonly written as one, respublica (ablative re publicā, republicā), the commonwealth, the state, from res, a thing, + publica, feminine of publicus, public: see real and public.
 

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