Republic

A republic, based on the Latin phrase res publica ('public affair'), is a state in which political power rests with the public through their
representatives—in contrast to a monarchy.[1][2]

Representation in a republic may or may not be freely elected by the general citizenry. In many historical republics, representation has been based
on personal status and the role of elections has been limited. This remains true today; among the 159 states that use the word republic in their
official names as of 2017, and other states formally constituted as republics, are states that narrowly constrain both the right of representation and
the process of election.

The term developed its modern meaning in reference to the constitution of the ancient Roman Republic, lasting from the overthrow of the kings in
509 BC to the establishment of the Empire in 27 BC. This constitution was characterized by a Senate composed of wealthy aristocrats wielding
significant influence; several popular assemblies of all free citizens, possessing the power to elect magistrates from the populace and pass laws; and
a series of magistracies with varying types of civil and political authority.

Most often a republic is a single sovereign state, but there are also subnational state entities that are referred to as republics, or that have
governments that are described as republican in nature.

Etymology
The term originates from the Latin translation of Greek word politeia. Cicero, among other Latin writers,
translated politeia into Latin as res publica, and it was in turn translated by Renaissance scholars as
republic (or similar terms in various European languages).[3] The term can literally be translated as 'public
matter'.[4] It was used by Roman writers to refer to the state and government, even during the period of the
Roman Empire.[5]

The term politeia can be translated as form of government, polity, or regime, and it does not necessarily
imply any specific type of regime as the modern word republic sometimes does. One of Plato's major
works on political philosophy, usually known in English as The Republic, was titled Politeia. However,
apart from the title, modern translations are generally used.[6] Aristotle was apparently the first classical
writer to state that the term politeia can be used to refer more specifically to one type of politeia, asserting
in Book III of his Politics: "When the citizens at large govern for the public good, it is called by the name
common to all governments (to koinon onoma pasōn tōn politeiōn), government (politeia)". In later Latin
works the term republic can also be used in a general way to refer to any regime, or to refer specifically to
governments which work for the public good.[7]

In medieval Northern Italy, a number of city states had commune or signoria based governments. In the
Sculpture of Cicero
late Middle Ages, writers such as Giovanni Villani described these states using terms such as libertas
populi, a free people. The terminology changed in the 15th century as the renewed interest in the writings
of Ancient Rome caused writers to prefer classical terminology. To describe non-monarchical states, writers (most importantly, Leonardo Bruni)
adopted the Latin phrase res publica.[8]

While Bruni and Machiavelli used the term to describe the states of Northern Italy, which were not monarchies, the term res publica has a set of
interrelated meanings in the original Latin. In subsequent centuries, the English word commonwealth came to be used as a translation of res
publica, and its use in English was comparable to how the Romans used the term res publica.[9] Notably, during The Protectorate of Oliver
Cromwell the word commonwealth was the most common term to call the new monarchless state, but the word republic was also in common
use.[10]

At the present time, the term republic commonly means a system of government which derives its power from the people rather than from another
basis, such as heredity or divine right.[11]

History
While the philosophical terminology developed in classical Greece and Rome, as already noted by Aristotle there was already a long history of city
states with a wide variety of constitutions, not only in Greece but also in the Middle East. After the classical period, during the Middle Ages, many
free cities developed again, such as Venice.

Classical republics
 The modern type of republic itself is different from any type of state found in the classical world.[12][13]
Nevertheless, there are a number of states of the classical era that are today still called republics. This includes
ancient Athens and the Roman Republic. While the structure and governance of these states was different
from that of any modern republic, there is debate about the extent to which classical, medieval, and modern
republics form a historical continuum. J. G. A. Pocock has argued that a distinct republican tradition stretches
from the classical world to the present.[4][14] Other scholars disagree.[4] Paul Rahe, for instance, argues that
the classical republics had a form of government with few links to those in any modern country.[15]
A map of the Roman Republic in
45 BC The political philosophy of the classical republics has influenced republican thought throughout the
subsequent centuries. Philosophers and politicians advocating republics, such as Machiavelli, Montesquieu,
Adams, and Madison, relied heavily on classical Greek and Roman sources which described various types of
regimes.

Aristotle's Politics discusses various forms of government. One form Aristotle named politeia, which consisted of a mixture of the other forms,
oligarchy and democracy. He argued that this was one of the ideal forms of government. Polybius expanded on many of these ideas, again
focusing on the idea of mixed government and differentiated basic forms of government between "benign" monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy,
and the "malignant" tyranny, oligarchy, and ochlocracy. The most important Roman work in this tradition is Cicero's De re publica.

Over time, the classical republics became empires or were conquered by empires. Most of the Greek republics were annexed to the Macedonian
Empire of Alexander. The Roman Republic expanded dramatically, conquering the other states of the Mediterranean that could be considered
republics, such as Carthage. The Roman Republic itself then became the Roman Empire.

Other ancient republics

The term republic is not commonly used to refer to pre-classical city-states, especially if outside Europe and the area which was under Graeco-
Roman influence.[4] However some early states outside Europe had governments that are sometimes today considered similar to republics.

In the ancient Near East, a number of cities of the Eastern Mediterranean achieved collective rule. Republic city-states flourished in Phoenicia
along the Levantine coast starting from the 11th century BC. In ancient Phoenicia, the concept of Shophet was very similar to a Roman consul.
Under Persian rule (539–332 BC), Phoenician city-states such as Tyre abolished the king system and adopted "a system of the suffetes (judges),
who remained in power for short mandates of 6 years".[16][17] Arwad has been cited as one of the earliest known examples of a republic, in which
the people, rather than a monarch, are described as sovereign.[18] The Israelite confederation of the era of the Judges[19] before the United
Monarchy has also been considered a type of republic.[4][20][21] The system of government of the Igbo people in what is now Nigeria has been
described as "direct and participatory democracy".[22]

Indian subcontinent
Early republican institutions come from the independent gaṇasaṅghas—gaṇa means 'tribe' and saṅgha means 'assembly'—which may have
existed as early as the 6th century BC and persisted in some areas until the 4th century AD in India. The evidence for this is scattered, however,
and no pure historical source exists for that period. Diodorus, a Greek historian who wrote two centuries after the time of Alexander the Great's
invasion of India (now Pakistan and northwest India) mentions, without offering any detail, that independent and democratic states existed in
India.[23] Modern scholars note the word democracy at the time of the 3rd century BC and later suffered from degradation and could mean any
autonomous state, no matter how oligarchic in nature.[24][25]

Key characteristics of the gaṇa seem to include a monarch, usually known by the name raja, and a
deliberative assembly. The assembly met regularly. It discussed all major state decisions. At least in
some states, attendance was open to all free men. This body also had full financial, administrative, and
judicial authority. Other officers, who rarely receive any mention, obeyed the decisions of the
assembly. Elected by the gaṇa, the monarch apparently always belonged to a family of the noble class
of Kshatriya Varna. The monarch coordinated his activities with the assembly; in some states, he did
so with a council of other nobles.[26] The Licchavis had a primary governing body of 7,077 rajas, the
heads of the most important families. On the other hand, the Shakyas, Koliyas, Mallakas, and
Licchavis, during the period around Gautama Buddha, had the assembly open to all men, rich and
poor.[27] Early republics or gaṇasaṅgha,[28] such as Mallakas, centered in the city of Kusinagara,
The Mahajanapadas were the sixteen
and the Vajjika (or Vṛjika) League, centered in the city of Vaishali, existed as early as the 6th century
most powerful and vast kingdoms and
BC and persisted in some areas until the 4th century AD.[29] The most famous clan amongst the republics of the era; there were also a
ruling confederate clans of the Vajji Mahajanapada were the Licchavis.[30] The Magadha kingdom number of smaller kingdoms stretching
included republican communities such as the community of Rajakumara. Villages had their own the length and breadth of Ancient India.
assemblies under their local chiefs called Gramakas. Their administrations were divided into Among the Mahajanapadas and smaller
executive, judicial, and military functions. states, the Shakyas, Koliyas, Mallakas,
and Licchavis followed republican
Scholars differ over how best to describe these governments, and the vague, sporadic quality of the government.
evidence allows for wide disagreements. Some emphasize the central role of the assemblies and thus
tout them as democracies; other scholars focus on the upper-class domination of the leadership and
possible control of the assembly and see an oligarchy or an aristocracy.[31][32] Despite the assembly's obvious power, it has not yet been
established whether the composition and participation were truly popular. This is reflected in the Arthashastra, an ancient handbook for monarchs
on how to rule efficiently. It contains a chapter on how to deal with the saṅghas, which includes injunctions on manipulating the noble leaders, yet
it does not mention how to influence the mass of the citizens, indicating that the gaṇasaṅgha are more of an aristocratic rule, or oligarchic
republic, than democracy.[33]

Icelandic Commonwealth
The Icelandic Commonwealth was established in 930 AD by refugees from Norway who had fled the unification of that country under King
Harald Fairhair. The Commonwealth consisted of a number of clans run by chieftains, and the Althing was a combination of parliament and
supreme court where disputes appealed from lower courts were settled, laws were decided, and decisions of national importance were taken. One
such example was the Christianisation of Iceland in 1000, where the Althing decreed that all Icelanders must be baptized into Christianity, and
forbade celebration of pagan rituals. Contrary to most states, the Icelandic Commonwealth had no official leader.

In the early 13th century, the Age of the Sturlungs, the Commonwealth began to suffer from long conflicts between warring clans. This, combined
with pressure from the Norwegian king Haakon IV for the Icelanders to rejoin the Norwegian "family", led the Icelandic chieftains to accept
Haakon IV as king by the signing of the Gamli sáttmáli ("Old Covenant") in 1262. This effectively brought the Commonwealth to an end. The
Althing, however, is still Iceland's parliament, almost 800 years later.[34]

Mercantile republics
In Europe new republics appeared in the late Middle Ages when a number of small states embraced
republican systems of government. These were generally small, but wealthy, trading states, like the
Mediterranean maritime republics and the Hanseatic League, in which the merchant class had risen to
prominence. Knud Haakonssen has noted that, by the Renaissance, Europe was divided with those states
controlled by a landed elite being monarchies and those controlled by a commercial elite being republics.[9]
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Neptune
Italy was the most densely populated area of Europe, and also one with the weakest central government. offers the wealth of the sea to
Many of the towns thus gained considerable independence and adopted commune forms of government. Venice, 1748–1750. This painting is
an allegory of the power of the
Completely free of feudal control, the Italian city-states expanded, gaining control of the rural
[35] Republic of Venice.
hinterland. The two most powerful were the Republic of Venice and its rival the Republic of Genoa.
Each were large trading ports, and further expanded by using naval power to control large parts of the
Mediterranean. It was in Italy that an ideology advocating for republics first developed. Writers such as Bartholomew of Lucca, Brunetto Latini,
Marsilius of Padua, and Leonardo Bruni saw the medieval city-states as heirs to the legacy of Greece and Rome.

Across Europe a wealthy merchant class developed in the important trading cities. Despite their wealth they had little power in the feudal system
dominated by the rural land owners, and across Europe began to advocate for their own privileges and powers. The more centralized states, such
as France and England, granted limited city charters.

Beginning of the Republic of Metz.
Election of the first Head-Alderman
in 1289, by Auguste Migette. Metz
was then a free imperial city of the
Holy Roman Emperor.
In the more loosely governed Holy Roman Empire, 51 of the largest towns became free imperial cities.
While still under the dominion of the Holy Roman Emperor most power was held locally and many
adopted republican forms of government.[35] The same rights to imperial immediacy were secured by the
major trading cities of Switzerland. The towns and villages of alpine Switzerland had, courtesy of
geography, also been largely excluded from central control. Unlike Italy and Germany, much of the rural
area was thus not controlled by feudal barons, but by independent farmers who also used communal forms
of government. When the Habsburgs tried to reassert control over the region both rural farmers and town
merchants joined the rebellion. The Swiss were victorious, and the Swiss Confederacy was proclaimed,
and Switzerland has retained a republican form of government to the present.[21]
Two Russian cities with a powerful merchant class—Novgorod and Pskov—also adopted republican
forms of government in 12th and 13th centuries, respectively, which ended when the republics were
conquered by Muscovy/Russia at the end of 15th – beginning of 16th century.[36]

The dominant form of government for these early republics was control by a limited council of elite patricians. In those areas that held elections,
property qualifications or guild membership limited both who could vote and who could run. In many states no direct elections were held and
council members were hereditary or appointed by the existing council. This left the great majority of the population without political power, and
riots and revolts by the lower classes were common. The late Middle Ages saw more than 200 such risings in the towns of the Holy Roman
Empire.[37] Similar revolts occurred in Italy, notably the Ciompi Revolt in Florence.

Mercantile republics outside Europe

Following the collapse of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum and establishment of the Turkish Anatolian Beyliks, the Ahiler merchant fraternities
established a state centered on Ankara that is sometimes compared to the Italian mercantile republics.

Calvinist republics
While the classical writers had been the primary ideological source for the republics of Italy, in Northern Europe, the Protestant Reformation would
be used as justification for establishing new republics.[38] Most important was Calvinist theology, which developed in the Swiss Confederacy, one
of the largest and most powerful of the medieval republics. John Calvin did not call for the abolition of monarchy, but he advanced the doctrine
that the faithful had the duty to overthrow irreligious monarchs.[39] Advocacy for republics appeared in the writings of the Huguenots during the
French Wars of Religion.[40]

Calvinism played an important role in the republican revolts in England and the Netherlands. Like the city-states of Italy and the Hanseatic
League, both were important trading centres, with a large merchant class prospering from the trade with the New World. Large parts of the
population of both areas also embraced Calvinism. During the Dutch Revolt (beginning in 1566), the Dutch Republic emerged from rejection of
Spanish Habsburg rule. However, the country did not adopt the republican form of government immediately: in the formal declaration of
independence (Act of Abjuration, 1581), the throne of king Philip was only declared vacant, and the Dutch magistrates asked the Duke of Anjou,
queen Elizabeth of England and prince William of Orange, one after another, to replace Philip. It took until 1588 before the Estates (the Staten, the
representative assembly at the time) decided to vest the sovereignty of the country in themselves.

In 1641 the English Civil War began. Spearheaded by the Puritans and funded by the merchants of London, the revolt was a success, and King
Charles I was executed. In England James Harrington, Algernon Sidney, and John Milton became some of the first writers to argue for rejecting
monarchy and embracing a republican form of government. The English Commonwealth was short-lived, and the monarchy was soon restored.
The Dutch Republic continued in name until 1795, but by the mid-18th century the stadtholder had become a de facto monarch. Calvinists were
also some of the earliest settlers of the British and Dutch colonies of North America.

Liberal republics
Along with these initial republican revolts, early modern Europe also saw a great increase in Liberal republics in early modern Europe
monarchical power. The era of absolute monarchy replaced the limited and decentralized monarchies
that had existed in most of the Middle Ages. It also saw a reaction against the total control of the
monarch as a series of writers created the ideology known as liberalism.

Most of these Enlightenment thinkers were far more interested in ideas of constitutional monarchy
than in republics. The Cromwell regime had discredited republicanism, and most thinkers felt that
republics ended in either anarchy or tyranny.[41] Thus philosophers like Voltaire opposed absolutism
An allegory of the French
while at the same time being strongly pro-monarchy.
Republic in Paris

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Montesquieu praised republics, and looked on the city-states of Greece
as a model. However, both also felt that a state like France, with 20 million people, would be
impossible to govern as a republic. Rousseau admired the republican experiment in Corsica (1755–
1769) and described his ideal political structure of small, self-governing communes. Montesquieu felt
that a city-state should ideally be a republic, but maintained that a limited monarchy was better suited
to a state with a larger territory.

The American Revolution began as a rejection only of the authority of the British Parliament over the Septinsular Republic flag from the
colonies, not of the monarchy. The failure of the British monarch to protect the colonies from what early 1800s
they considered the infringement of their rights to representative government, the monarch's branding
of those requesting redress as traitors, and his support for sending combat troops to demonstrate
authority resulted in widespread perception of the British monarchy as tyrannical.

With the United States Declaration of Independence the leaders of the revolt firmly rejected the
monarchy and embraced republicanism. The leaders of the revolution were well versed in the
writings of the French liberal thinkers, and also in history of the classical republics. John Adams had
A revolutionary Republican hand-
notably written a book on republics throughout history. In addition, the widely distributed and
written bill from the Stockholm
popularly read-aloud tract Common Sense, by Thomas Paine, succinctly and eloquently laid out the riots during the Revolutions of
case for republican ideals and independence to the larger public. The Constitution of the United 1848, reading: "Dethrone Oscar
States, went into effect in 1789, created a relatively strong federal republic to replace the relatively he is not fit to be a king: Long
weak confederation under the first attempt at a national government with the Articles of live the Republic! The Reform!
Confederation and Perpetual Union ratified in 1781. The first ten amendments to the Constitution, down with the Royal house, long
live Aftonbladet! death to the king
called the United States Bill of Rights, guaranteed certain natural rights fundamental to republican
/ Republic Republic the People.
ideals that justified the Revolution.
Brunkeberg this evening". The
writer's identity is unknown.
The French Revolution was also not republican at its outset. Only after the Flight to Varennes
removed most of the remaining sympathy for the king was a republic declared and Louis XVI sent to
the guillotine. The stunning success of France in the French Revolutionary Wars saw republics spread by force of arms across much of Europe as a
series of client republics were set up across the continent. The rise of Napoleon saw the end of the French First Republic and her Sister Republics,
each replaced by "popular monarchies". Throughout the Napoleonic period, the victors extinguished many of the oldest republics on the continent,
including the Republic of Venice, the Republic of Genoa, and the Dutch Republic. They were eventually transformed into monarchies or absorbed
into neighboring monarchies.
Outside Europe another group of republics was created as the Napoleonic Wars allowed the states of Latin America to gain their independence.
Liberal ideology had only a limited impact on these new republics. The main impetus was the local European descended Creole population in
conflict with the Peninsulares—governors sent from overseas. The majority of the population in most of Latin America was of either African or
Amerindian descent, and the Creole elite had little interest in giving these groups power and broad-based popular sovereignty. Simón Bolívar, both
the main instigator of the revolts and one of its most important theorists, was sympathetic to liberal ideals but felt that Latin America lacked the
social cohesion for such a system to function and advocated autocracy as necessary.

In Mexico this autocracy briefly took the form of a monarchy in the First Mexican Empire. Due to the Peninsular War, the Portuguese court was
relocated to Brazil in 1808. Brazil gained independence as a monarchy on September 7, 1822, and the Empire of Brazil lasted until 1889. In many
other Latin American states various forms of autocratic republic existed until most were liberalized at the end of the 20th century.[42]

European states in 1815 [43] European states in 1914 [44] European states in 1930 [45] European states in 1950 [46] European states in 2015 [47]
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The French Second Republic was created in 1848, but abolished by Napoleon III who proclaimed himself
Emperor in 1852. The French Third Republic was established in 1870, when a civil revolutionary committee
refused to accept Napoleon III's surrender during the Franco-Prussian War. Spain briefly became the First
Spanish Republic in 1873–74, but the monarchy was soon restored. By the start of the 20th century France,
Switzerland and San Marino remained the only republics in Europe. This changed when, after the 1908
Lisbon Regicide, the 5 October 1910 revolution established the Portuguese Republic.

In East Asia, China had seen considerable anti-Qing sentiment during the 19th century, and a number of
protest movements developed calling for constitutional monarchy. The most important leader of these efforts
was Sun Yat-sen, whose Three Principles of the People combined American, European, and Chinese ideas.
Under his leadership the Republic of China was proclaimed on January 1, 1912.

Republican ideas were spreading, especially in Asia. The United States began to have considerable influence
Honoré DaumierThe Republic
in East Asia in the later part of the 19th century, with Protestant missionaries playing a central role. The liberal
(1848), a symbolic representation
and republican writers of the west also exerted influence. These combined with native Confucian inspired of the French Second Republic.
political philosophy that had long argued that the populace had the right to reject unjust governments that had Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm., The
lost the Mandate of Heaven. Louvre, Paris

During this period, two short-lived republics were proclaimed in East Asia; the Republic of Formosa and the
First Philippine Republic.

Republicanism expanded significantly in the aftermath of World War I, when several of the largest European
empires collapsed: the Russian Empire (1917), German Empire (1918), Austro-Hungarian Empire (1918), and
Ottoman Empire (1922) were all replaced by republics. New states gained independence during this turmoil,
and many of these, such as Ireland, Poland, Finland and Czechoslovakia, chose republican forms of
government. Following Greece's defeat in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–22), the monarchy was briefly
A 1920s poster that
replaced by the Second Hellenic Republic (1924–35). In 1931, the proclamation of the Second Spanish
commemorates the permanent
Republic (1931–39) resulted in the Spanish Civil War leading to the establishment of a Francoist regime. President of the Republic of
China Yuan Shikai and the
The aftermath of World War II left Italy with a destroyed economy, a divided society, and anger against the provisional President of the
monarchy for its endorsement of the Fascist regime. These frustrations contributed to a revival of the Italian Republic Sun Yat-sen
republican movement.[48] King Umberto II was pressured to call the 1946 Italian institutional referendum to
decide whether Italy should remain a monarchy or become a republic.[49] The supporters of the republic
chose the effigy of the Italia turrita, the national personification of Italy, as their unitary symbol to be used in the electoral campaign and on the
referendum ballot on the institutional form of the State, in contrast to the Savoy coat of arms, which represented the monarchy.[50] On June 2, 1946
the republican side won 54.3% of the vote and Italy officially became a republic,[51] a day celebrated since as Festa della Repubblica. Italy has a
written democratic constitution, resulting from the work of a Constituent Assembly formed by the representatives of all the anti-fascist forces that
contributed to the defeat of Nazi and Fascist forces during the liberation of Italy.[52]

Decolonization
In the years following World War II, most of the remaining European colonies gained their independence, and
most became republics. The two largest colonial powers were France and the United Kingdom. Republican
France encouraged the establishment of republics in its former colonies. The United Kingdom attempted to
follow the model it had for its earlier settler colonies of creating independent Commonwealth realms still
linked under the same monarch. While most of the settler colonies and the smaller states in the Caribbean and
the Pacific retained this system, it was rejected by the newly independent countries in Africa and Asia, which
revised their constitutions and became republics instead.
Electoral ballot of the 1946 Italian
Britain followed a different model in the Middle East; it installed local monarchies in several colonies and institutional referendum
mandates including Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen and Libya. In subsequent decades
revolutions and coups overthrew a number of monarchs and installed republics. Several monarchies remain,
and the Middle East is the only part of the world where several large states are ruled by monarchs with almost
complete political control.[53]

Socialist republics
In the wake of the First World War, the Russian monarchy fell during the Russian Revolution. The Russian A map of the Commonwealth
Provisional Government was established in its place on the lines of a liberal republic, but this was overthrown republics
by the Bolsheviks who went on to establish the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). This was the
first republic established under Marxist–Leninist ideology. Communism was wholly opposed to monarchy,
and became an important element of many republican movements during the 20th century. The Russian Revolution spread into Mongolia, and
overthrew its theocratic monarchy in 1924. In the aftermath of the Second World War the communists gradually gained control of Romania,
Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Albania, ensuring that the states were reestablished as socialist republics rather than monarchies.

Communism also intermingled with other ideologies. It was embraced by many national liberation movements during decolonization. In Vietnam,
communist republicans pushed aside the Nguyễn dynasty, and monarchies in neighbouring Laos and Cambodia were overthrown by communist
movements in the 1970s. Arab socialism contributed to a series of revolts and coups that saw the monarchies of Egypt, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen
ousted. In Africa, Marxism–Leninism and African socialism led to the end of monarchy and the proclamation of republics in states such as Burundi
and Ethiopia.

Islamic republics
Islamic political philosophy has a long history of opposition to absolute monarchy, notably in the work of Al-Farabi. Sharia law took precedence
over the will of the ruler, and electing rulers by means of the Shura was an important doctrine. While the early caliphate maintained the principles
of an elected ruler, later states became hereditary or military dictatorships though many maintained some pretense of a consultative shura.

None of these states are typically referred to as republics. The current usage of republic in Muslim countries is borrowed from the western
meaning, adopted into the language in the late 19th century.[54] The 20th century saw republicanism become an important idea in much of the
Middle East, as monarchies were removed in many states of the region. Iraq became a secular state. Some nations, such as Indonesia and
Azerbaijan, began as secular. In Iran, the 1979 revolution overthrew the monarchy and created an Islamic republic based on the ideas of Islamic
democracy.

Constitution
A republic does not necessarily have a constitution but is often constitutional in the sense of constitutionalism, meaning that it is constituted by a set
of institutions which provide a separation of powers. The term constitutional republic is a way to highlight an emphasis of the separation of
powers in a given republic, as with constitutional monarchy or absolute monarchy highlighting the absolute autocratic character of a monarchy.

Head of state

Structure
With no monarch, most modern republics use the title president for the head of state. Originally used to refer to the presiding officer of a committee
or governing body in Great Britain the usage was also applied to political leaders, including the leaders of some of the Thirteen Colonies
(originally Virginia in 1608); in full, the "President of the Council".[55] The first republic to adopt the title was the United States of America.
Keeping its usage as the head of a committee the President of the Continental Congress was the leader of the original congress. When the new
constitution was written the title of President of the United States was conferred on the head of the new executive branch.

If the head of state of a republic is also the head of government, this is called a presidential system. There are a number of forms of presidential
government. A full-presidential system has a president with substantial authority and a central political role.

In other states the legislature is dominant and the presidential role is almost purely ceremonial and apolitical, such as in Germany, Italy, India, and
Trinidad and Tobago. These states are parliamentary republics and operate similarly to constitutional monarchies with parliamentary systems where
the power of the monarch is also greatly circumscribed. In parliamentary systems the head of government, most often titled prime minister,
exercises the most real political power. Semi-presidential systems have a president
as an active head of state with important powers, but they also have a prime
minister as a head of government with important powers.

The rules for appointing the president and the leader of the government, in some
republics permit the appointment of a president and a prime minister who have
opposing political convictions: in France, when the members of the ruling cabinet
and the president come from opposing political factions, this situation is called
cohabitation.

In some countries, like Bosnia and Herzegovina, San Marino, and Switzerland, the
head of state is not a single person but a committee (council) of several persons
holding that office. The Roman Republic had two consuls, elected for a one-year
term by the comitia centuriata, consisting of all adult, freeborn males who could
prove citizenship.
World's states coloured by systems of government:
Parliamentary systems: Head of government is elected or
nominated by and accountable to the legislature
Constitutional monarchy with a ceremonial monarch
Parliamentary republic with a ceremonial president
Parliamentary republic with an executive president

Elections Presidential system: Head of government (president) is

In liberal democracies, presidents are elected, either directly by the people or
indirectly by a parliament or council. Typically in presidential and semi-presidential
systems the president is directly elected by the people, or is indirectly elected as
done in the United States. In that country the president is officially elected by an
electoral college, chosen by the States. All U.S. States have chosen electors by
popular election since 1832. The indirect election of the president through the
electoral college conforms to the concept of republic as one with a system of
indirect election. In the opinion of some, direct election confers legitimacy upon
the president and gives the office much of its political power.[56] However, this
concept of legitimacy differs from that expressed in the United States Constitution
which established the legitimacy of the United States president as resulting from
the signing of the Constitution by nine states.[57] The idea that direct election is
required for legitimacy also contradicts the spirit of the Great Compromise, whose
actual result was manifest in the clause[58] that provides voters in smaller states
with more representation in presidential selection than those in large states; for
example citizens of Wyoming in 2016 had 3.6 times as much electoral vote
representation as citizens of California.[59]
In states with a parliamentary system the president is usually elected by the
parliament. This indirect election subordinates the president to the parliament, and
also gives the president limited legitimacy and turns most presidential powers into
reserve powers that can only be exercised under rare circumstance. There are
exceptions where elected presidents have only ceremonial powers, such as in
Ireland.
popularly elected and independent of the legislature
Presidential republic
Hybrid systems:
Semi-presidential republic: Executive president is
independent of the legislature; head of government is
appointed by the president and is accountable to the legislature
Assembly-independent republic: Head of government
(president or directory) is elected by the legislature, but is not
accountable to it
Semi-constitutional monarchy: Monarch holds significant
executive or legislative power
Absolute monarchy: Monarch has unlimited power
One-party state: Power is constitutionally linked to a single
political party
Military junta: Committee of military leaders controls the
government; constitutional provisions are suspended
Provisional government: No constitutionally defined basis
to current regime
Dependent territories and places without governments
Note: this chart represent de jure systems of government, not
the de facto degree of democracy.

Ambiguities
The distinction between a republic and a monarchy is not always clear. The constitutional monarchies of the former British Empire and Western
Europe today have almost all real political power vested in the elected representatives, with the monarchs only holding either theoretical powers,
no powers or rarely used reserve powers. Real legitimacy for political decisions comes from the elected representatives and is derived from the will
of the people. While hereditary monarchies remain in place, political power is derived from the people as in a republic. These states are thus
sometimes referred to as crowned republics.[60]

Terms such as "liberal republic" are also used to describe all of the modern liberal democracies.[61]

There are also self-proclaimed republics that act similarly to absolute monarchies with absolute power vested in the leader and passed down from
father to son. North Korea and Syria are two notable examples where a son has inherited political control. Neither of these states are officially
monarchies. There is no constitutional requirement that power be passed down within one family, but it has occurred in practice.

There are also elective monarchies where ultimate power is vested in a monarch, but the monarch is chosen by some manner of election. A current
example of such a state is Malaysia where the Yang di-Pertuan Agong is elected every five years by the Conference of Rulers composed of the
nine hereditary rulers of the Malay states, and the Vatican City-State, where the pope is selected by cardinal-electors, currently all cardinals under
the age of 80. While rare today, elective monarchs were common in the past. The Holy Roman Empire is an important example, where each new
emperor was chosen by a group of electors. Islamic states also rarely employed primogeniture, instead relying on various forms of election to
choose a monarch's successor.
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth had an elective monarchy, with a wide suffrage of some 500,000 nobles. The system, known as the
Golden Liberty, had developed as a method for powerful landowners to control the crown. The proponents of this system looked to classical
examples, and the writings of the Italian Renaissance, and called their elective monarchy a rzeczpospolita, based on res publica.

Sub-national republics
In general being a republic also implies sovereignty as for the state to be ruled by the people it cannot be
controlled by a foreign power. There are important exceptions to this, for example, republics in the Soviet
Union were member states which had to meet three criteria to be named republics:

1. be on the periphery of the Soviet Union so as to be able to take advantage of their

theoretical right to secede;
2. be economically strong enough to be self-sufficient upon secession; and
3. be named after at least one million people of the ethnic group which should make up the The "Republics of Russia"
majority population of said republic.
It is sometimes argued that the former Soviet Union was also a supra-national republic, based on the claim
that the member states were different nation states.

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a federal entity composed of six republics (Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia). Each republic had its parliament, government, institute of citizenship, constitution, etc.,
but certain functions were delegated to the federation (army, monetary matters). Each republic also had a right of self-determination according to
the conclusions of the second session of the AVNOJ and according to the federal constitution.

In Switzerland, all cantons can be considered to have a republican form of government, with constitutions,
legislatures, executives and courts; many of them being originally sovereign states. As a consequence, several
Romance-speaking cantons are still officially referred to as republics, reflecting their history and will of
independence within the Swiss Confederation. Notable examples are the Republic and Canton of Geneva and
the Republic and Canton of Ticino.[62]

States of the United States are required, like the federal government,
to be republican in form, with final authority resting with the people.
This was required because the states were intended to create and
The Swiss cantons displayed on enforce most domestic laws, with the exception of areas delegated to
the cupola of the Federal Palace the federal government and prohibited to the states. The founders of
the country intended most domestic laws to be handled by the states.
Requiring the states to be a republic in form was seen as protecting the
citizens' rights and preventing a state from becoming a dictatorship or monarchy, and reflected
Flag of the US state of California, a
unwillingness on the part of the original 13 states (all independent republics) to unite with other states that
sub-national entity.
were not republics. Additionally, this requirement ensured that only other republics could join the union.

In the example of the United States, the original 13 British colonies became independent states after the American Revolution, each having a
republican form of government. These independent states initially formed a loose confederation called the United States and then later formed the
current United States by ratifying the current U.S. Constitution, creating a union that was a republic. Any state joining the union later was also
required to be a republic.

Other meanings

Archaic meaning
Before the 17th Century, the term 'republic' could be used to refer to states of any form of government as long as it was not a tyrannical regime.
French philosopher Jean Bodin's definition of the republic was "the rightly ordered government of a number of families, and of those things which
are their common concern, by a sovereign power." Oligarchies and monarchies could also be included as they were also organised toward 'public'
shared interests.[11] In medieval texts, 'republic' was used to refer to the body of shared interest with the king at its head.[63][64] For instance, the
Holy Roman Empire was also known as the Sancta Respublica Romana, the Holy Roman Republic.[65][66] The Byzantine Empire also continued
calling itself the Roman Republic as the Byzantines did not regard monarchy as a contradiction to republicanism. Instead, republics were defined
as any state based on popular sovereignty and whose institutions were based on shared values.[67]

Democracy vs. republic debate

While the term democracy has been used interchangeably with the term republic by some, others have made sharp distinctions between the two for
millennia. "Montesquieu, founder of the modern constitutional state, repeated in his The Spirit of the Laws of 1748 the insight that Aristotle had
expressed two millennia earlier, 'Voting by lot is in the nature of democracy; voting by choice is in the nature of aristocracy.'" [68] Additional critics
of elections include Rousseau, Robespierre, and Marat, who said of the new French Republic, "What use is it to us, that we have broken the
aristocracy of the nobles, if that is replaced by the aristocracy of the rich?"[69]

Political philosophy
The term republic originated from the writers of the Renaissance as a descriptive term for states that were not monarchies. These writers, such as
Machiavelli, also wrote important prescriptive works describing how such governments should function. These ideas of how a government and
society should be structured is the basis for an ideology known as classical republicanism or civic humanism. This ideology is based on the Roman
Republic and the city states of Ancient Greece and focuses on ideals such as civic virtue, rule of law and mixed government.[70]

This understanding of a republic as a form of government distinct from a liberal democracy is one of the main theses of the Cambridge School of
historical analysis.[71] This grew out of the work of J. G. A. Pocock who in 1975 argued that a series of scholars had expressed a consistent set of
republican ideals. These writers included Machiavelli, Milton, Montesquieu and the founders of the United States of America.

Pocock argued that this was an ideology with a history and principles distinct from liberalism.[72] These ideas were embraced by a number of
different writers, including Quentin Skinner, Philip Pettit[73] and Cass Sunstein. These subsequent writers have further explored the history of the
idea, and also outlined how a modern republic should function.

United States
A distinct set of definitions of the term "republic" evolved in the United States, where the term is often equated with "representative democracy."
This narrower understanding of the term was originally developed by James Madison[74][75] and notably employed in Federalist Paper No. 10.
This meaning was widely adopted early in the history of the United States, including in Noah Webster's dictionary of 1828.[76] It was a novel
meaning to the term; representative democracy was not an idea mentioned by Machiavelli and did not exist in the classical republics.[77] There is
also evidence that contemporaries of Madison considered the meaning of "republic" to reflect the broader definition found elsewhere, as is the case
with a quotation of Benjamin Franklin taken from the notes of James McHenry where the question is put forth, "a Republic or a Monarchy?".[78]

The term republic does not appear in the Declaration of Independence, but it does appear in Article IV of the Constitution, which "guarantee[s] to
every State in this Union a Republican form of Government." What exactly the writers of the constitution felt this should mean is uncertain. The
Supreme Court, in Luther v. Borden (1849), declared that the definition of republic was a "political question" in which it would not intervene. In
two later cases, it did establish a basic definition. In United States v. Cruikshank (1875), the court ruled that the "equal rights of citizens" were
inherent to the idea of a republic.

However, the term republic is not synonymous with the republican form. The republican form is defined as one in which the powers of
sovereignty are vested in the people and are exercised by the people, either directly, or through representatives chosen by the people, to whom
those powers are specially delegated.[79][80]

Beyond these basic definitions, the word republic has a number of other connotations. W. Paul Adams observes that republic is most often used in
the United States as a synonym for "state" or "government," but with more positive connotations than either of those terms.[81] Republicanism is
often referred to as the founding ideology of the United States.[82][83] Traditionally scholars believed this American republicanism was a derivation
of the classical liberal ideologies of John Locke and others developed in Europe.[82]

In the 1960s and 1970s, Bernard Bailyn began to argue that republicanism was just as, or even more important than liberalism in the creation of the
United States.[84] This issue is still much disputed and scholars like Isaac Kramnick completely reject this view.[85]

See also
Commonwealth
Democracy
Democratic republic
Free state
Primus inter pares
List of republics
Index: Republics
Republicanism
Republics of Russia
Guarantee Clause of the U.S. Constitution

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Further reading
Martin van Gelderen & Quentin Skinner, eds., Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage,
v. 1, Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge
U.P., 2002
Martin van Gelderen & Quentin Skinner, eds., Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage,
v. 2, The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge U.P.,
2002
Willi Paul Adams, "Republicanism in Political Rhetoric before 1776", Political Science
Quarterly 85(1970), pp. 397–421.
Joyce Appleby, "Republicanism in Old and New Contexts", in William & Mary Quarterly, 3rd
series, 43 (January, 1986), pp. 3–34.
Joyce Appleby, ed., "Republicanism" issue of American Quarterly 37 (Fall, 1985).
Sarah Barber, Regicide and Republicanism: Politics and Ethics in the English Republic,
1646–1649, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998.
Gisela Bock, Quentin Skinner & Maurizio Viroli, eds., Machiavelli and Republicanism,
Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1990.
Everdell, William R. (2000), The End of Kings: A History of Republics and Republicans Speech of U.S. Senator against the
(2nd ed.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press Mexican–American War
characterizing it as imperialist and
Eric Gojosso, Le concept de république en France (XVIe – XVIIIe siècle), Aix/Marseille,
1998, pp. 205–45. presidential.

James Hankins, "Exclusivist Republicanism and the Non-Monarchical Republic", Political

Theory 38.4 (August 2010), 452–82.
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Everdell, William R. Everdell. "From State to Freestate: The Meaning of the Word Republic from Jean Bodin to John Adams" (ht
tp://www.reasoninrevolt.net.au/objects/pdf/a000109.pdf). Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20190324141847/http://www.rea
soninrevolt.net.au/objects/pdf/a000109.pdf) 2019-03-24 at the Wayback Machine (7th ISECS, Budapest, 7/31/87). Valley Forge
Journal. June 1991.

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