republics

Noun

republic (plural republics)

1. A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy.
   • The United States is a republic; Norway is a constitutional monarchy.
2. (archaic) A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branches of government are separate.
   • Republicanism is the political principle of the separation of the executive power (the administration) from the legislative; despotism is that of the autonomous execution by the state of laws which it has itself decreed.[…]Therefore, we can say: the smaller the personnel of the government (the...1795, Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch
3. One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.
   • The Republic of Udmurtia is west of the Permian Oblast.
4. One of the subdivisions that made up the former Yugoslavia.

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