republicanism

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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.

The principles and policy of the Republican party, so called

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True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. Herbert Croly

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism. Mike Pence

There is no real republicanism except that of literature. If I find a human face light up at some quotation which everyone ought to know, that man, be he duke or dustman, is my brother. That is the bond of literature. Study it, the glorious literature of the first country in the world-your own. Stanley Baldwin

As long as offices are open to all men and no constitutional rank is established, it is pure republicanism. Alexander Hamilton

They have retired into the Judiciary as a stronghold. There the remains of federalism are to be preserved and fed from the Treasury; and from that battery all the works of republicanism are to be beaten down and erased. Thomas Jefferson

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