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The famous republics of antiquity never gave examples of more unshaken courage, more haughty spirits, or more intractable love of independence than were hidden in former times among the wild forests of the New World.†
Chpt 1

republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
Utility of knowing the origin of nations in order to understand their social condition and their laws—America the only country in which the starting-point of a great people has been clearly observable—In what respects all who emigrated to British America were similar—In what they differed—Remark applicable to all Europeans who established themselves on the shores of the New World—Colonization of Virginia—Colonization of New England—Original character of the first inhabitants of New England—Their arrival—Their first laws—Their social contract—Penal code borrowed from the Hebrew legislation—Religious fervor—Republican spirit—Intimate union of the spirit of religion with the spirit of liberty.
Chpt 2
Puritanism was not merely a religious doctrine, but it corresponded in many points with the most absolute democratic and republican theories.
Chpt 2
It gave scope to the activity of a real political life most thoroughly democratic and republican.
Chpt 2
In studying the laws which were promulgated at this first era of the American republics, it is impossible not to be struck by the remarkable acquaintance with the science of government and the advanced theory of legislation which they display.†
Chpt 2

republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
The form of the Federal Government of the United States was the last which was adopted; and it is in fact nothing more than a modification or a summary of those republican principles which were current in the whole community before it existed, and independently of its existence.
Chpt 5
The town, or tithing, as the smallest division of a community, must necessarily exist in all nations, whatever their laws and customs may be: if man makes monarchies and establishes republics, the first association of mankind seems constituted by the hand of God.†
Chpt 5

republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
Municipal independence is therefore a natural consequence of the principle of the sovereignty of the people in the United States: all the American republics recognize it more or less; but circumstances have peculiarly favored its growth in New England.†
Chpt 5
This theory, which was nearly unknown to the republics of antiquity—which was introduced into the world almost by accident, like so many other great truths—and misunderstood by several modern nations, is at length become an axiom in the political science of the present age.†
Chpt 5
The American republics have no standing armies to intimidate a discontented minority; but as no minority has as yet been reduced to declare open war, the necessity of an army has not been felt.†
Chpt 5
] The absence of a central government will not, then, as has often been asserted, prove the destruction of the republics of the New World; far from supposing that the American governments are not sufficiently centralized, I shall prove hereafter that they are too much so.†
Chpt 5
Confederations have existed in other countries beside America, and republics have not been established upon the shores of the New World alone; the representative system of government has been adopted in several States of Europe, but I am not aware that any nation of the globe has hitherto organized a judicial power on the principle now adopted by the Americans.†
Chpt 6
This does not depend upon the republican form of American institutions, for the same facts present themselves in England.
Chpt 6
If it had been the intention of the American legislator to invest a political body with great judicial authority, its action would not have been limited to the circle of public functionaries, since the most dangerous enemies of the State may be in the possession of no functions at all; and this is especially true in republics, where party influence is the first of authorities, and where the strength of many a reader is increased by his exercising no legal power.†
Chpt 7

republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
When the American republics begin to degenerate it will be easy to verify the truth of this observation, by remarking whether the number of political impeachments augments.†
Chpt 7
Thus, whilst the power of modifying and changing their legislation at pleasure was preserved in all the republics, they were forbidden to enact ex post facto laws, or to create a class of nobles in their community.†
Chpt 8
In these two essential points, therefore, the Union exercises more central authority than the French monarchy possessed, although the Union is only an assemblage of confederate republics.†
Chpt 8
It was indispensable to the maintenance of the republican form of government that the representative of the executive power should be subject to the will of the nation.†
Chpt 8

republican form of government = a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
This dependence of the executive power is one of the defects inherent in republican constitutions.
Chpt 8
This point is more prominent and more discoverable in republics, whilst it is more remote and more carefully concealed in monarchies, but it always exists somewhere.†
Chpt 8

republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
The fundamental principle of legislation—a principle essentially republican—is the same in both countries, although its consequences may be different, and its results more or less extensive.
Chpt 8
But we shall be led to acknowledge that this is only a secondary cause of its superiority, when we recollect that eleven new States *n have been added to the American Confederation since the promulgation of the Federal Constitution, and that these new republics have always rather exaggerated than avoided the defects which existed in the former Constitutions.†
Chpt 8

republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
The Republican principle demands that the deliberative sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they entrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion, or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.
Chpt 8
The history of the world affords no instance of a great nation retaining the form of republican government for a long series of years, *r and this has led to the conclusion that such a state of things is impracticable.
Chpt 8
[Footnote r: I do not speak of a confederation of small republics, but of a great consolidated Republic†
Chpt 8

republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
All the passions which are most fatal to republican institutions spread with an increasing territory, whilst the virtues which maintain their dignity do not augment in the same proportion.
Chpt 8
In monarchical States the strength of the government is its own; it may use, but it does not depend on, the community, and the authority of the prince is proportioned to the prosperity of the nation; but the only security which a republican government possesses against these evils lies in the support of the majority.
Chpt 8
In great republics the impetus of political passion is irresistible, not only because it aims at gigantic purposes, but because it is felt and shared by millions of men at the same time.†
Chpt 8

republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
This spirit of amelioration is constantly alive in the American republics, without compromising their tranquillity; the ambition of power yields to the less refined and less dangerous love of comfort.†
Chpt 8
It is generally believed in America that the existence and the permanence of the republican form of government in the New World depend upon the existence and the permanence of the Federal system; and it is not unusual to attribute a large share of the misfortunes which have befallen the new States of South America to the injudicious erection of great republics, instead of a divided and confederate sovereignty.†
Chpt 8

republican form of government = a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
It is generally believed in America that the existence and the permanence of the republican form of government in the New World depend upon the existence and the permanence of the Federal system; and it is not unusual to attribute a large share of the misfortunes which have befallen the new States of South America to the injudicious erection of great republics, instead of a divided and confederate sovereignty.†
Chpt 8

republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
It is incontestably true that the love and the habits of republican government in the United States were engendered in the townships and in the provincial assemblies.
Chpt 8
But it is this same republican spirit, it is these manners and customs of a free people, which are engendered and nurtured in the different States, to be afterwards applied to the country at large.
Chpt 8
As the sovereignty of the Union is limited and incomplete, its exercise is not incompatible with liberty; for it does not excite those insatiable desires of fame and power which have proved so fatal to great republics.†
Chpt 8

republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
The other party, which affected to be more exclusively attached to the cause of liberty, took that of Republican.
Chpt 10
From that moment the Republican or Democratic party *a has proceeded from conquest to conquest, until it has acquired absolute supremacy in the country.
Chpt 10
They submit to this state of things as an irremediable evil, but they are careful not to show that they are galled by its continuance; it is even not uncommon to hear them laud the delights of a republican government, and the advantages of democratic institutions when they are in public.
Chpt 10
The omnipotence of the majority appears to me to present such extreme perils to the American Republics that the dangerous measure which is used to repress it seems to be more advantageous than prejudicial.†
Chpt 12

republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
And to no people can this inquiry be more vitally interesting than to the French nation, which is blindly driven onwards by a daily and irresistible impulse towards a state of things which may prove either despotic or republican, but which will assuredly be democratic.
Chpt 13
The time may be already anticipated at which the American Republics will be obliged to introduce the plan of election by an elected body more frequently into their system of representation, or they will incur no small risk of perishing miserably amongst the shoals of democracy.†
Chpt 13

republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
When a democratic republic renders offices which had formerly been remunerated gratuitous, it may safely be believed that the State is advancing to monarchical institutions; and when a monarchy begins to remunerate such officers as had hitherto been unpaid, it is a sure sign that it is approaching toward a despotic or a republican form of government.†
Chpt 13

republican form of government = a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
Arbitrary Power Of Magistrates Under The Rule Of The American Democracy For what reason the arbitrary power of Magistrates is greater in absolute monarchies and in democratic republics than it is in limited monarchies—Arbitrary power of the Magistrates in New England.†
Chpt 13

republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
Nowhere has so much been left by the law to the arbitrary determination of the magistrate as in democratic republics, because this arbitrary power is unattended by any alarming consequences.†
Chpt 13
The disastrous influence which popular authority may sometimes exercise upon the finances of a State was very clearly seen in some of the democratic republics of antiquity, in which the public treasure was exhausted in order to relieve indigent citizens, or to supply the games and theatrical amusements of the populace.†
Chpt 13
On casting my eyes over the different republics which form the confederation, I perceive that their Governments lack perseverance in their undertakings, and that they exercise no steady control over the men whom they employ.†
Chpt 13
To style the oligarchy which ruled over France in 1793 by that name would be to offer an insult to the republican form of government.†
Chpt 13

republican form of government = a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
This relative impotence of democratic republics is, perhaps, the greatest obstacle to the foundation of a republic of this kind in Europe.†
Chpt 13

republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
If a democratic country remained during a whole century subject to a republican government, it would probably at the end of that period be more populous and more prosperous than the neighboring despotic States.
Chpt 13
How comes it, then, that the American republics prosper and maintain their position?†
Chpt 14

republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
They are emancipated from prejudice without having acknowledged the empire of reason; they are neither animated by the instinctive patriotism of monarchical subjects nor by the thinking patriotism of republican citizens; but they have stopped halfway between the two, in the midst of confusion and of distress.
Chpt 14

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(1) (republic as in: the country is a republic)
of a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws; or someone in favor of such a form of government
(2) (meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus)
As a proper noun, the word form Republican is commonly used to describe one of the major U.S. political parties. It is and has been used by many other organizations such as The Irish Republican Army.

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