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re·pub·lic       (rĭ-pŭb'lĭk)  Pronunciation Key  n.   A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president. A nation that has such a political order. A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them. A nation that has such a political order. A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them. A nation that has such a political order. often Republic A specific republican government of a nation: the Fourth Republic of France. An autonomous or partially autonomous political and territorial unit belonging to a sovereign federation. A group of people working as equals in the same sphere or field: the republic of letters. [French république, from Old French, from Latin rēspūblica : rēs, thing; see rē- in Indo-European roots + pūblica, feminine of pūblicus, of the people; see public.]

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republic
noun
1.	a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them [syn: democracy]
2.	a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; "the head of state in a republic is usually a president"

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A form of government in which power is explicitly vested in the people, who in turn exercise their power through elected representatives. Today, the terms republic and democracy are virtually interchangeable, but historically the two differed. Democracy implied direct rule by the people, all of whom were equal, whereas republic implied a system of government in which the will of the people was mediated by representatives, who might be wiser and better educated than the average person. In the early American republic, for example, the requirement that voters own property and the establishment of institutions such as the Electoral College were intended to cushion the government from the direct expression of the popular will.

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Main Entry: re·pub·lic
Function: noun
1 : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president;also : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government
2 : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and isexercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law; also : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government

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Republic County, KS (county, FIPS 157) Location: 39.82816 N, 97.65027 W
Population (1990): 6482 (3283 housing units)
Area: 1855.9 sq km (land), 9.9 sq km (water)

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

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, 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, 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, MI Zip code(s): 49879

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

Port Republic, VA Zip code(s): 24471

Port Republic, NJ (city, FIPS 60600) Location: 39.53801 N, 74.48716 W
Population (1990): 992 (372 housing units)
Area: 20.0 sq km (land), 2.7 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 08241

Port Republic, MD Zip code(s): 20676

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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.

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