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republic
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republic as in:  the country is a republic

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  • The constitution protects the rights of minorities in our republic.
  • The United States is more accurately described as a republic than as a democracy.
  • The constitutional monarchy had been abolished, replaced by a republic,  (source)
    republic = a government controlled by elected representatives
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  • Our good old nation was just seven years old as a republic when it became bigger by a small territory.  (source)
    republic = a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
  • At Emory he went so far as to co-found a College Republican Club.  (source)
  • Attempting to break the silence, the lad remarked on the upcoming conference to unify the Soviet republics—a reasonable gambit given her apparent intensity.†  (source)
    republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
  • The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.†  (source)
    Republican Form of Government = a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
  • Moreover, the natural corruptness of her speech overcoming her implacable republicanism, she still said instinctively "the de La Tremoilles," or, rather (by an abbreviation sanctified by the usage of music-hall singers and the writers of the 'captions' beneath caricatures, who elide the 'de'), "the d'La Tremoilles," but she corrected herself at once to "Madame La Tremoille.†  (source)
  • But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current government.  (source)
  • Next thing I know, you'll become a Republican.  (source)
  • Party General Secretary and President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Andre Narmonov shifted his gaze to Padorin.†  (source)
    Republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
  • The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.†  (source)
    Republican Form of Government = a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
  • Has republicanism finally triumphed?†  (source)
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  • Would you like, some day, Montag, to read Plato's Republic?  (source)
    Republic = an influential work in philosophy regarding political theory
  • I am Plato's Republic.  (source)
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