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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Republic \Re*pub"lic\ (r?-p?b"l?k), n. [F. r['e]publique, L.
respublica commonwealth; res a thing an affair + publicus,
publica, public. See {Real}, a., and {Public}.]
1. Common weal. [Obs.] --B. Jonson
2. A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole
body of the people, and is exercised by representatives
elected by them a commonwealth. Cf {Democracy}, 2.
Note: In some ancient states called republics the sovereign
power was exercised by an hereditary aristocracy or a
privileged few constituting a government now
distinctively called an aristocracy. In some there was
a division of authority between an aristocracy and the
whole body of the people except slaves. No existing
republic recognizes an exclusive privilege of any class
to govern, or tolerates the institution of slavery.
{Republic of letters}, The collective body of literary or
learned men.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
republic
n : a political system governed by the people or their
representatives [syn: {democracy}, {commonwealth}] [ant:
{autocracy}]
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Republic, KS (city, FIPS 59000)
Location: 39.92365 N, 97.82439 W
Population (1990): 177 (119 housing units)
Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 66964
Republic, MI
Zip code(s): 49879
Republic, MO (city, FIPS 61238)
Location: 37.11730 N, 93.47512 W
Population (1990): 6292 (2431 housing units)
Area: 10.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 65738
Republic, OH (village, FIPS 66320)
Location: 41.12476 N, 83.01608 W
Population (1990): 611 (235 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 44867
Republic, PA (CDP, FIPS 64224)
Location: 39.96483 N, 79.87662 W
Population (1990): 1603 (734 housing units)
Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 15475
Republic, WA (town, FIPS 57850)
Location: 48.64906 N, 118.73185 W
Population (1990): 940 (460 housing units)
Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 99166
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which the thing governing and the thing
governed being the same there is only a permitted authority to
enforce an optional obedience. In a republic, the foundation of
public order is the ever lessening habit of submission inherited from
ancestors who being truly governed, submitted because they had to
There are as many kinds of republics as there are graduations between
the despotism whence they came and the anarchy whither they lead.
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