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  • Advocates of a republic
    Republic
    A republic is a form of government in which the head of state is not a monarch and the people have an impact on its government. The word 'republic' is derived from the Latin phrase res publica which can be translated as "a public affair".Both modern and ancient republics vary widely in their...

    , a form of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is generally associated with the rule of law
    • Republicanism
      Republicanism
      Republicanism is the ideology of governing a nation as a republic, where the head of state is appointed by means other than heredity, often elections. The exact meaning of Republicanism varies depending on the cultural and historical context. The sometimes contrary definitions are all covered in...

      , the ideology in support of republics or against monarchy; the opposite of monarchism
      Monarchism
      Monarchism is the advocacy of the establishment, preservation, or restoration of a monarchy as a form of government in a nation. A monarchist is an individual who supports this form of government out of principle, independent from the person, the Monarch.In this system, the Monarch may be the...
      • Republicanism in Australia
        Republicanism in Australia
        Republicanism in Australia is a movement to change Australia's status as a constitutional monarchy to a republican form of government. Such sentiments have been expressed in Australia from before federation onward to the present, wherein modern arguments focus on abolishing the Australian...

      • Republicanism in Canada
        Republicanism in Canada
        Canadian republicanism is the appreciation amongst Canadians for, and thus also advocacy for the establishment of, a republican form of government in the sense of an organization headed by a president to replace the Canadian system of constitutional monarchy...

      • Republicanism in New Zealand
        Republicanism in New Zealand
        Republicanism in New Zealand is a theoretical political concept, the implementation of which would result in changing New Zealand's current status as a Commonwealth realm and constitutional monarchy to that of a republic. Traditionally few New Zealanders supported a republic...

      • Republicanism in the United Kingdom
        Republicanism in the United Kingdom
        Republicanism in the United Kingdom is the movement which seeks to remove the British monarchy and replace it with a republic that has a non-hereditary head of state...

    • Classical republicanism
      Classical republicanism
      Classical republicanism is a form of republicanism originating from and inspired by the governmental forms and writings of classical antiquity...

      , republicanism as formulated in Greece and Rome in antiquity
  • A member of a Republican Party:
    • List of Republican Parties
      Republican Party
      - Asia :* Republican Party * Republican Party * Republican Party * Republican Party of Afghanistan* Republican Party of India * Mongolian Republican Party* Civic Will Republican Party, Mongolia...

      , a complete listing
    • Republican Party (United States)
      Republican Party (United States)
      The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP, despite being the younger of the two major parties. In the U.S...

      , the largest conservative party in the U.S.
    • Fianna Fáil
      Fianna Fáil
      Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party , shortened to Fianna Fáil is a political party in the Republic of Ireland. It is the largest party in both houses of the Oireachtas, Ireland's bicameral parliament, and the leading party in a coalition government with the Green Party, which also has the support...

      , a centrist Irish party also known as the Republican Party
    • List of Republican People's Parties
      Republican People's Party
      Republican People's Party may be:*Republican People's Party *Republican People's Party *Republican Popular Party See also:* Russian Republican People's Party...

      , a complete listing
  • Institutions or supporters of particular governments that called themselves republics, including:
    • List of republics, a complete listing
    • Roman Republic
      Roman Republic
      The Roman Republic was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a republican form of government. It began with the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, c...

      , as well as supporters of the Republic during the Roman Empire
    • Second Spanish Republic
      Second Spanish Republic
      The Second Spanish Republic was the system of government in Spain between April 14, 1931, when King Alfonso XIII left the country following local and municipal elections in which republican candidates won the majority of votes in urban areas and April 1, 1939, when the last of the Republican ...

      , during the Spanish Civil War
    • Various French Republics, most notably the First Republic
      French First Republic
      The French First Republic was founded on 22 September, 1792, by the newly established National Convention. The First Republic lasted until the declaration of the First French Empire in 1804 under Napoleon...

       established during the French Revolution and the Second Republic
      French Second Republic
      {|align=right|The French Second Republic was the republican government of France between the 1848 Revolution and the coup by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte which initiated the Second Empire. It officially adopted the motto Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité...

      , the first post-Revolution republic in France.
    • Irish republicanism
      Irish Republicanism
      Irish republicanism is an ideology based on the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic.In 1801, under the Act of Union, the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland merged to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...

      , a faction in the Irish independence movement supportive of a complete break with the United Kingdom
  • Republican River
    Republican River
    The Republican River is a river in the central Great Plains of North America, flowing through the U.S. states of Nebraska and Kansas.-Geography:...

    , a river in Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas in the United States
  • The Republican (Springfield), a newspaper published in Springfield, Massachusetts