Republicanism

Definition: Republicanism

Republicanism

Noun

1. The political orientation of those who hold that a republic is the best form of government.

Date "republicanism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references)

Synonyms within Context: Republicanism

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Government	Monarchy; kinghood, kingship; royalty, regality; aristarchy, aristocracy; oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, demagogy; commonwealth; dominion; heteronomy; republic, republicanism; socialism; collectivism; mob law, mobocracy, ochlocracy; vox populi, imperium in imperio; bureaucracy; beadledom, bumbledom; stratocracy; military power, military government, junta; feodality, feudal system, feudalism.
	Democracy, republicanism; communism, statism, state socialism; socialism; conservatism, toryism; liberalism, whigism; theocracy; constitutional monarchy.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Specialty Definition: Republicanism

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Republicanism is the political theory that holds that the best form of government is a republic as opposed to a monarchy. Unlike proponents of democracy, socialism, or communism, modern republicans rarely argue on the basis of universal principles that a republic is the best form of government in all nations. Rather republicanism is generally a local political movement that argues for the abolition of the monarchy in a particular nation. Because most monarchs in constitutional monarchies have limited power, arguments over republicanism in the late 20th and early 21st century are more often about symbolism than about actual transfers of power.

The term republic most commonly means the system of government in which the head of state is elected for a limited term, as opposed to a constitutional monarchy. Republicanism in this sense is support for the abolition of constitutional monarchies. This sense is particularly important in countries such as Australia, where the abolition of the monarchy is a major political issue and is largely about the nature of the relationship between Australia, the United Kingdom, and Asia; and also countries such as the United Kingdom, where republicanism has never experienced much popular support, but nonetheless has been a significant minority position.

Republican movements have been successful in France, Italy, Greece, Ireland, Ethiopia, China and Russia. In the case of Italy and Greece, the abolition of the monarchy was intended because the monarchy had become discredited for cooperations with Mussolini in the former case, and the Greek generals in the latter.

In the case of China, Russia, and Ethiopia, the overthrow of the monarchy was in the context of a general Marxist revolution.

Spain has been a rare example in which a monarchy has been restored in the 20th century.

Another, older and less commonly used definition of the term, uses the term "republic" to describe what is more commonly called a representative democracy; it restricts the term "democracy" to refer only to direct democracy. See democracy for further discussion of this term usage and its history.

See:

Australian republicanism
British republicanism

Republicanism in the United States

According to the older definition of the term, the United States of America is a republic, not a democracy. (Although most people, including most Americans, call it a democracy, they are using the modern definition, not the older one referred to here). This usage of the term republic was particularly common around the time of the American Founding Fathers. The authors of the U.S. Constitution intentionally chose what they called a republic for several reasons. For one, it is impractical to collect votes from every citizen on every political issue. In theory, representatives would be more well-informed and less emotional than the general populace. Furthermore, a republic can be contrived to protect against the "tyranny of the majority." The Federalist Papers outline the idea that pure democracy is actually quite dangerous, because it allows a majority to infringe upon the rights of a minority. By forming what they called a Republic, in which representatives are chosen in many different ways (the President, House, Senate, and state officials are all elected differently), it is more difficult for a majority to control enough of the government to infringe upon a minority.

Republicanism in Northern Ireland

The term "republican" is used in the context of Northern Ireland to refer to nationalist groups such as the Irish Republican Army (IRA), the Irish National Liberation Army the Real IRA and their political wings Sinn Féin, the Irish Republican Socialist Party some of whom support violence as a means of establishing a republic (in the more common sense) encompassing the whole of the island of Ireland. This is in contrast to democratic nationalist groups such as the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). During the decades of The Troubles the democratic nationalist have had more support than the republicans among the minority Catholic electorate. With the recent, albeit shaky, development of a peace process, Sinn Féin's move away from violence has resulted in increased support and in the recent elections they received slightly more votes than the SDLP.

Republicanism can also mean the doctrines of the Republican Party of the United States.

External link

Res Publica: an international anti-monarchy Web directory

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Republicanism."

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Crosswords: Republicanism

Specialty definitions using "republicanism": Bonnet Rouge ♦ Sans Culottides. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Republicanism" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (republicanism).

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Commercial Usage: Republicanism

Domain	Title
Books	Machiavelli and Republicanism (reference) Political Thought in Ireland 1776-1798: Republicanism, Patriotism, and Radicalism (Oxford Historical Monographs) (reference) Politics in the New South: Republicanism, Race and Leadership in the Twentieth Century (reference) Politics of Illusion: Republicanism and Socialism in Modern Ireland (reference) Republicanism in Reconstruction Texas (Reville Book) (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Republicanism

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	Goldwater Republicanism or Rockefeller Republicanism.Credit: Library of Congress.		Campaign badge(?) of Republican party, to be worn to the polls, showing Theodore Roosevelt on horseback, carrying U.S. flag, with banner "stalwart Republicanism to the front"; and head-and-shoulders portrait of John Weaver, candidate for mayor of Philadel.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: Republicanism

"Republicanism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.51% of the time. "Republicanism" is used about 67 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.51%	66	41,290
Noun (proper)	1.49%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	67	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Republicanism

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "republicanism": left-republicanism, non-republicanism.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Republicanism

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
republicanism	16
modern republicanism	5
classical republicanism	4
agrarian republicanism	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Republicanism

Language		Translations for "republicanism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		republikanizëm. (various references)

Arabic		‏الجمهورياتية. (various references)

Bulgarian		републикански убеждения, републикански дух. (various references)

Finnish		tasavaltaisuus. (various references)

French		républicanisme. (various references)

Greek		κόμμα των ρεπουμπλικάνων, αρχέσ των ρεπουμπλικάνων, δημοκρατικότησ, δημοκρατικότητα. (various references)

Hungarian		köztársasági rendszer. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		共�'��"� , 共�'�主義 , 共�'�制度 , 共�'�制 , 共�'� (cooperation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きょうわしゅぎ, きょうわせいど, きょうわせい, きょうわ (concert, concord, cooperation, harmony). (various references)

Manx		pobblaghtys. (various references)

Pig Latin		epublicanismray

Portuguese		republicanismo. (various references)

Romanian		republicanism. (various references)

Russian		республиканство. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		republikanstvo. (various references)

Spanish		republicanismo. (various references)

Swedish		republikanism. (various references)

Turkish		cumhuriyetçilik. (various references)

Ukranian		республіканська форма правління, республіканізм. (various references)

Vietnamese		chủ nghĩa cộng ho� . (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Republicanism

Derivations
	Words beginning with "republicanism": republicanisms. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Republicanism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: republicains, republicansim. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Republicanism"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "republicanism" (pronounced rupu"blikuni'zum)
7	-k u n i' z u m	mechanism, tokenism.
6	-u n i' z u m	abolitionism, agrarianism, anachronism, antagonism, authoritarianism, chauvinism, communism, creationism, determinism, egalitarianism, expansionism, expressionism, feminism, hedonism, hooliganism, humanism, illusionism, impressionism, interventionism, isolationism, lesbianism, microorganism, obstructionism, organism, paganism, parkinsonism, perfectionism, protectionism, puritanism, revisionism, satanism, sectarianism, totalitarianism, unionism, vegetarianism.
5	-n i' z u m	modernism, monism, opportunism.
4	-i' z u m	absenteeism, absolutism, activism, adventurism, alcoholism, altruism, amateurism, aneurism, animism, aphorism, astigmatism, atavism, atheism, autism, baptism, barbarism, bilingualism, bolshevism, boosterism, botulism, cannibalism, capitalism, catechism, centralism, classicism, collectivism, colonialism, commercialism, conservatism, consumerism, corporatism, counterterrorism, criticism, cronyism, cubism, cynicism, dandyism, defeatism, deism, despotism, diamagnetism, diastrophism, dimorphism, dogmatism, Druidism, dualism, dwarfism, dynamism, egoism, egotism, electromagnetism, elitism, embolism, emotionalism, empiricism, entrepreneurialism, environmentalism, ergotism, eroticism, escapism, ethnocentrism, euphemism, evangelism, extremism, factionalism, fanaticism, fascism, fatalism, favoritism, federalism, ferromagnetism, fetishism, feudalism, formalism, fundamentalism, futurism, geotropism, gnosticism, gradualism, helotism, heroism, hypnotism, idealism, imperialism, incrementalism, individualism, intellectualism, internationalism, Irredentism, isomorphism, jingoism, journalism, leftism, legalism, liberalism, lyricism, magnetism, mannerism, masochism, materialism, mercantilism, mesmerism, metabolism, methodism, militarism, minimalism, monasticism, monetarism, monotheism, moralism, multiculturalism, multilateralism, mutualism, mysticism, narcissism, nationalism, nativism, naturalism, negativism, nepotism, neutralism, nihilism, optimism, ostracism, overoptimism, pacifism, parallelism, parochialism, pastoralism, paternalism, patriotism, pessimism, pharisaism, pietism, plagiarism, pluralism, polymorphism, polytheism, populism, positivism, pragmatism, professionalism, provincialism, racialism, racism, radicalism, realism, recidivism, relativism, rheumatism, romanticism, sadism, secularism, sensationalism, separatism, sexism, skepticism, socialism, statism, stoicism, supernaturalism, surrealism, symbolism, synergism, territorialism, terrorism, theism, tourism, truism, vandalism, vigilantism, voluntarism, volunteerism, voyeurism.
3	-z u m	bosom, careerism, chasm, cytoplasm, enthusiasm, iconoclasm, ism, microcosm, neoplasm, orgasm, phantasm, prism, sarcasm, schism, spasm.
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Anagrams: Republicanism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-i-i-l-m-n-p-r-s-u"
	-2 letters: republicans, unempirical.
	-3 letters: incurables, luminaires, luminaries, municipals, republican, semipublic, unscramble.
	-4 letters: calumnies, cisalpine, criminals, empirical, epicurism, imperials, incumbers, incurable, insurable, irascible, luminaire, manciples, manicures, masculine, miniscule, municipal, muscarine, numerical, peculiars, penumbral, penumbras, pliancies, plumerias, precisian, primacies, publicans, publicise, puerilism, republics, semilunar, sibilance, simulacre, subalpine, submarine, superlain, supermini, unlimbers, urinemias.
	-5 letters: airlines, albinism, albumens, albumins.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-i-i-l-m-n-p-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: republicanisms.
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