All 11 Uses of
republic
in
Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
- I know it is difficult to get over local or long standing prejudices, yet if we will suffer ourselves to examine the component parts of the English constitution, we shall find them to be the base remains of two ancient tyrannies, compounded with some new republican materials.
Chpt 1.
- THIRDLY — The new republican materials in the persons of the commons, on whose virtue depends the freedom of England.
Chpt 1.
- Till then their form of government (except in extraordinary cases, where the Almighty interposed) was a kind of republic administered by a judge and the elders of the tribes.†
Chpt 2.republic = a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
- The nearer any government approaches to a republic the less business there is for a king.†
Chpt 2.
- Sir William Meredith calls it a republic; but in its present state it is unworthy of the name, because the corrupt influence of the crown, by having all the places in its disposal, hath so effectually swallowed up the power, and eaten out the virtue of the house of commons (the republican part in the constitution) that the government of England is nearly as monarchical as that of France or Spain.†
Chpt 2.
- Sir William Meredith calls it a republic; but in its present state it is unworthy of the name, because the corrupt influence of the crown, by having all the places in its disposal, hath so effectually swallowed up the power, and eaten out the virtue of the house of commons (the republican part in the constitution) that the government of England is nearly as monarchical as that of France or Spain.
Chpt 2.
- For it is the republican and not the monarchical part of the constitution of England which Englishmen glory in, viz.
Chpt 2. *
- the liberty of choosing an house of commons from out of their own body—and it is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
Chpt 2.
- Why is the constitution of England sickly, but because monarchy hath poisoned the republic, the crown hath engrossed the commons?†
Chpt 2.republic = a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
- The republics of Europe are all (and we may say always) in peace.†
Chpt 3.republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
- Holland and Switzerland are without wars, foreign or domestic: Monarchical governments, it is true, are never long at rest; the crown itself is a temptation to enterprising ruffians at HOME; and that degree of pride and insolence ever attendant on regal authority, swells into a rupture with foreign powers, in instances, where a republican government, by being formed on more natural principles, would negotiate the mistake.
Chpt 3.
Definitions:
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(1)
(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
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(2)
(meaning too common or 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.