republican
The country is inclined toward republicanism.
the sophisticated arguments of classical republicanism
In many respects, civic republicanism remains an underdeveloped political doctrine.

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Examples of republicanism

republicanism
Not all variants of republicanism, in other words, required the people's direct participation in constitution making.
Republicanism, in the sense of antimonarchism, was a product of accident rather than design.
Republicanism is currently enjoying a resurgence of interest and support.
Projects begun in southern universities on revolutionary republicanism in the 1960s and 1970s were, in some instances, delayed for decades or abandoned altogether.
Nevertheless, this sample does suggest that the parallels ran even deeper, and that political and military republicanism appealed most strongly to the same social groups.
The attractions of civic republicanism have never faded, and there is much that remains admirable in that tradition.
Traditions of classical humanism and republicanism have received considerable attention in recent interpretations.
All he had to do was to commit himself to the political ideology centered on the abstract ideals of liberty, equality, and republicanism.
This represents a form of rural reformational republicanism of the early modern period.
Even in the 1830s, after adopting a ' centralist ' ideology, they did not abandon their faith in republicanism.
Republicanism, emphasizing equality, assigns greater dignity to public life.
If we take these definitions seriously, we are at pains to determine whether liberalism, republicanism, and ascriptivism should be regarded as traditions, institutions, or both.
The first, we saw, presented three alternatives: liberalism, liberalism/republicanism, and multiple-traditions.
Skilled workers' manhood is far less tied to public political categories (republicanism) than artisans' had been.
The latter is a remarkably common theme, and one, as we shall see, that is not limited to the defenders of traditional republicanism.
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