Crossword clues for republicanism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Republicanism \Re*pub"lic*an*ism\ (-?z'm), n. [Cf. F. r['e]publicanisme.]
A republican form or system of government; the principles or theory of republican government.
Attachment to, or political sympathy for, a republican form of government.
--Burke.The principles and policy of the Republican party, so called [U.S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, from republican (adj.) + -ism. In reference to the U.S. Republican Party from 1856.
Wiktionary
n. The advocacy of a republic as a means of government
WordNet
n. the political orientation of those who hold that a republic is the best form of government
Wikipedia
Republicanism is an ideology of being a citizen in a state as a republic under which the people hold popular sovereignty. Many countries are "republics" in the sense that they are not monarchies. However, this article covers only the ideology of republicanism.
The word, republic, derives from the Latin, res publica, which referred to the system of government that emerged in the 6th century BC following the expulsion of the kings from Rome by Lucius Junius Brutus and Collatinus.
This form of government collapsed in the latter part of the 1st century BC, giving way to what was a monarchy in form, if not in name. Republics revived subsequently, with, for example, Renaissance Florence or early modern Britain. The concept of a republic became a powerful force in Britain's North American colonies where it led to the American Revolution. In Europe it gained enormous influence through the French Revolution. Republicanism is distinguished from both the liberal and socialist tradition.
Usage examples of "republicanism".
Romish or Genevan, not a violent partisan of republicanism in church or state, and not familiar enough with American thought to suspect the use that might be made in the United States of such an incident as I am now to repeat.
United the two men might be in their hatred of the French, republicanism, and Catholics, but Hendon was far too much a stickler for the preeminence of rules and propriety to ever find favor with a Machiavellian schemer like Jarvis.
Maclntyre is sowing religious division in the ranks, practicing rituals involving animal cruelty or non-consensual sexual acts, preaching Market Maoism or New Republicanism or otherwise aiding and abetting the Chinks or the Yanks, I warn you most seriously to not waste your time or mine.
FELLOW CITIZENS:--Having become a candidate for the honorable office of one of your Representatives in the next General Assembly of this State, in according with an established custom and the principles of true Republicanism it becomes my duty to make known to you, the people whom I propose to represent, my sentiments with regard to local affairs.
As for the despicable Third Partyists—Ollivier, Gramont, Gambetta—and the uncouth street mobs agitating for republicanism, and the coarse caricatures of His Majesty—and of me—that constantly appear in comic papers like La Vie Parisienne, why, any other monarch would by now be greasing the guillotine.
The sequestrated estates of the Royalists would have been distributed among the adherents of republicanism, and not held to bolster up a military dictatorship.
Nevertheless, he did retrieve the imperial crown from the quagmire of republicanism.
Kerensky implored his Western allies to allow this conference to take place, but, fearful of a worldwide outbreak of socialism and republicanism, they refused, in spite of the favourable response of a small majority of the British Labour Party.
So they were able to spend their time giving longwinded speeches on the glories of republicanism and issuing challenges to each other over the pettiest slights imaginable.
What we have constantly to keep before the eyes of our understanding is that the world-historical significance of the struggle demands the direct intervention of the proletariat in social life, and not just some kind of parliamentarian republicanism or military semi-absolutism.