What is the meaning of the word Republican?

Answer 1

A republican government is a state or country that is not led by a hereditary monarchy, and in which the people elect government representatives according to their political inerests. -Liza Jumbalaya

Answer 2

In a Democracy, every citizen votes on every issue. There is no President, Senate, or House of Representatives. All power rests with all the people voting on every single issue. In a Republic, the citizens vote for representatives that will vote on every issue. Republics also limit the power of government over the people. In America, our Constitution puts limits on what the government is permitted to do. America has a republican form of government. To make things even more confusing, the American political parties called the Republican Party and Democratic Party do not advocate for Republican or Democratic forms of government. Both Parties are part of the republican form of government.

Answer 3

It has four meanings around the world;- 1)One who subscribes to French Revolution republican values of equality, freedom and community. 2)One who wishes to abolish the monarchy. 3)An extreme Irish nationalist who believes in reuniting Ireland by force. 4)One who is a member of or who votes for the Republican Party in the USA.

Answer 4

Democracy vs Republic

A democracy is rule by the majority. What many people fail to realize about a democracy is the minority always loses. You have no rights in a democracy. You merely have privileges which are granted to you by the will of the majority. In a democracy, 51% of the people may vote to take away the property of 49%. The founding fathers loathed the idea of democracy, often referring to it as tyranny of the majority.

A republic is rule by law. The founding fathers understood the importance of establishing a republican form of government. The purpose of a republican form of government is to protect the rights and property of each individual citizen, or the minority. In a republic, one person and the law will overrule 300,000,000 votes. If it's not your property, you may not vote on it. This is why a republic is so vociferously essential in a free society. We are still able to vote. However, there is a balance of power between the people and state. We have representatives and senators, as well as an electoral college who all take the feel of the people and vote accordingly. If the United States were a democracy, we would go to the polls and directly vote on every issue by majority rule. Clearly this isn't the case.

Some proof of our government

The pledge of allegiance states, "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the republicfor which it stands, one Nation under God,indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Article 4, section 4, clause 1 of the United States Constitution states, "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government."

Quotes from the founding fathers

Alexander Hamilton said at the Constitutional convention in 1787, "We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments."

James Madison wrote in Federalist paper #10, "Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

Alexander Hamilton said in a speech urging ratification of the Constitution on June 21, 1788, "It has been observed that a pure democracy, if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies, in which the people themselves deliberated, never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity."

Samuel Adams wrote in a letter to John Taylor on April 15th, 1814, "Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide."

Answer 5

No. A republican is a political party that is part of a democratic-republic, like America. A democratic republic, however, IS a form of government.

Answer 6

It means that the people get to vote on who they want to be in office. The monarchy does not get to choose for the people.

Answer 7

in which people are represented by elected leaders. (Study Island)

Answer 8

don't nobody know yet how dumb is that

Answer 9

no guns but you can pop dat coochie