meaning of republic
1. Common weal.
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.
3. a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
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