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- Dictionaryre·pub·lic/rəˈpəblik/
noun
- 1. a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
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5 days ago · Primary Source. The Republic. Annotation. Under the monarchy, the king was the country’s symbolic center. Removing him and establishing a republic made necessary not only a new constitution but also a new set of symbols. Here the revolutionaries transformed "Liberty" into "the Republic."
1 day ago · Democracy (from Ancient Greek: δημοκρατία, romanized : dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') [1] is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state.
1 day ago · Republican Party, one of the two major political parties, alongside the Democratic Party, in the United States. Also known as the Grand Old Party, or GOP, the Republican Party is the largest conservative political party in the U.S. Learn more about the history of the party in this article.
2 days ago · Ireland ( Irish: Éire [ˈeːɾʲə] ⓘ ), also known as the Republic of Ireland ( Poblacht na hÉireann ), [a] is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern side of the island.
5 days ago · representative democracy, political system in which citizens of a country or other political entity vote for representatives to handle legislation and otherwise rule that entity on their behalf. The elected representatives are in turn accountable to the electorate for their actions.
1 day ago · The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
1 day ago · The American Revolution and the early federal republic. Prelude to revolution. The tax controversy; Constitutional differences with Britain; The Continental Congress; The American Revolutionary War; Treaty of Paris; Foundations of the American republic. Problems before the Second Continental Congress; State politics; The ...
