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Definitions of republic:

noun: a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch
Example: "The head of state in a republic is usually a president"

noun: a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

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public democracy plato-philosopher james-madison prerogative aristocratic united-states-constitution ratification irresponsible hinder oppressive upstart citizen united-states-declaration-of-independence separation-of-powers veto judicial-review initiative referendum political-question jurisdiction federalist-papers electoral-college cynical ambrose-bierce republican republic-disambiguation politics form-of-government list-of-forms-of-government anarchy aristocracy communist-state confederation corporatism consociationalism demarchy direct-democracy representative-democracy consensus-democracy despotism dictatorship autocracy military-dictatorship military-junta authoritarianism totalitarianism ethnic-democracy ethnocracy exilarchy fascism federation feudalism gerontocracy kleptocracy kratocracy kritarchy logocracy magocracy meritocracy geniocracy minarchism night-watchman-state monarchy absolute-monarchy constitutional-monarchy diarchy noocracy ochlocracy oligarchy panarchism parliamentary-system plutocracy presidential-system puppet-state crowned-republic capitalist-republic constitutional-republic federal-republic parliamentary-republic federal-parliamentary-republic socialist-state sociocracy technocracy-2 cyberocracy netocracy thalassocracy theocracy islamic-state theodemocracy timocracy tribe chiefdom tyrant unitary-state res-publica united-states france constitution-political suffrage

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