republican

A Republican believes that the best form of government is one in which decisions are made by a a council of citizen representatives. Classic historic examples of republican government include pre-imperial Rome and renaissance period Venice. In both cases the governing body was filled by a combination of heredity and appointment, representing not only the citizens but also powerful political and economic interest groups.

The most notable contemporary republic is the government of the United States of America which has a bicameral legislature selected by popular election under the rules established in its written constitution. The constitution is considered a republican document because it establishes a specific hierarchical process which minimizes direct popular involvement in the mechanisms of government and formalizes the delegation of policy making to elective representatives. The US constitution is available for reference from the National Archives.  In the modern context one of the best explanations of republican government is found at the University of Chicago Press constitution resource site.

Republican can also refer to members of the Republican Party, a political party which advocates republican government.

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• Joseph Cao Republican Voted For Health Reform In Decision of Conscience

  
  UwidoNews - Submitted news — Authority: 510
  The lone Republican who voted for the sweeping health care changes that passed the House said Sunday that Joseph Cao "had to make a http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-11-08-cao-votes-yes-for-hea...
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• ‘The G.O.P. has been taken over by the people it used to exploit’

  
  SocraticGadfly — Authority: 443
  Krugman nails it , using last week’s tea-party rally sponsored, officially, by the GOP, as his starting point. There is no god and I am his prophet.
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• Op-Ed Columnist: Paranoia Strikes Deep

  
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• Mike Sodrels Big Weekend

  
  The Hoosierpundit — Authority: 478
  I blogged late last week about an email that was sent out by Dee Dee Benkie, Indianas national committeewoman on the Republican National Committee, and Larry Shickles, the former 9th District chairman, for a lunch for Congressman Mike Sodrel. First of all, to put an end to the many inquiring emails I have received ...
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• Tim Pawlenty at “Leadership for Iowa”

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 139
  Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty was the featured speaker at the “Leadership for Iowa” event hosted by the Republican Party of Iowa .  You can watch his speech here or below: I was very impressed by Governor Pawlenty’s ability to connect with his audience.  I appreciated his sense of humor, and ...
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• Nancy Pelosion’s Newest Trillion Dollar Health Care Monstrosity Will Not Bankrupt The United States Of America If …

  
  PUNK ROCK REPUBLICAN — Authority: 140
  American explorers can discover two more unknown continents full of untapped mineral wealth that can quickly be exploited using their indigenous populations as cheap labor. Or all those twenty-something Obama supporters will soon discover the joys of seven thousand dollar a year Federal health insurance mandates ...
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• Where’s The United Nations Condemnation?

  
  PUNK ROCK REPUBLICAN — Authority: 140
  Of Israel’s act of piracy. If the UN doesn’t act will Europe have to capture Israeil ships for a few minutes before letting everyone on board go? Or will the U.S. have to send in the Navy (and some more sharpshooters) to protect Iranian arms shipments to terror groups - I mean disgruntled groups suffering from ...
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• The Best We Can Do…..

  
  kavips — Authority: 118
  “We only send one….. let’s send our best….” Obviously the best person we have to represent us in the current House of Representatives, is there now. Recent events have called me to question whether it is the best we can do. The President’s version of the Health Care Reform Act passed the House last ...
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• Why Can’t We Be This Lucky?

  
  kavips — Authority: 118
  “ I felt last night’s decision was the right decision for my district, even though it was not the popular decision for my party ,” Cao told CNN on Sunday. Cao is the lone Republican to vote for the Healthcare Act yesterday… Mike Castle is Delaware’s lone Republican…. who, unlike Cao, obviously puts ...
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• Doesn’t Al Qaeda Release Videos Every Week Rallying Its Followers To Rise Up On Their Own And Attack Western Targets?

  
  PUNK ROCK REPUBLICAN — Authority: 140
  So why must a gunman be officially connected to a terror cell before being called a terrorist? And … When James W. Von Brunn shot up Washington’s Holocaust Museum last June was there any skittishness that outing his motivations would lead to reprisals against elderly white men?
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• Undercover Surveillance Unit Captures Strange Conversation

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 575
  When we returned to the FFFF HQ today we noticed that somebody had been rummaging around in the medicine cabinet. Sure enough, some of our ritual mescaline had disappeared. And later today we received the following communication from the boys in the white, unmarked van, purporting to be yet another snagged Dick ...
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• Joe The Closest Liberal And The Death Of Congress

  
  The Minority Militant — Authority: 123
  You have the political stage, Mr. Cao! The only retard-li-KKKan to vote Yay on the Houses version of the healthcare bill was -- you guessed it -- Anh "Joe The Closest Liberal" Cao. You cant tell me the former immigration attorney from Louisiana doesnt have a bit of Ho Chi Minh in him. Uncle Ho taught us all well. ...
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• Not about the deficit

  
  lovable liberal — Authority: 134
  Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats who object to the House health care bill care about something other than deficit reduction : The plan will cost more over the next decade than the $900 billion limit Obama had set, but a combination of spending reductions and tax increases will more than offset those costs, so the ...
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• Why Did They Vote The Way The Did?

  
  Politics 24/7 — Authority: 476
    As riveting as last night’s government healthcare takeover vote was, part of the mystique behind it involved hundreds of individual stories that involved political horse trading, private deals, favors, bribes and even extortion-like coercion. To actually pass this very unpopular and contentious bill took more ...
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• Obama’s Stimulus Credibilty Gap on Unemployment

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 630
  The House Republican Conference has just released the following graph on the unemployment effects of Barack Obama’s “stimulus” package: Obamas Stimulus Credibility Gap Also, please see the following, award-winning Independent Institute book: Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century ...
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• Republican Hero votes for Health Care Reform: Will he get the climate catastrophe treatment?

  
  Get Energy Smart! NOW!!! — Authority: 616
  Yesterday, a lone Republican, Representative Ahn Cao, voted for the (very weak) House health care reform bill.I read the versions of the House [health reform] bill. I listened to the countless stories of Orleans and Jefferson Parish citizens whose health care costs are exploding – if they are able to obtain health ...
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• The Heart of the Matter

  
  Beautiful Horizons — Authority: 473
  In the heart of the Iraq War debate, the one argument I could never abide was the humanitarian argument; not because Saddam Hussein wasnt an awful, brutal dictator, but because it was, frankly, it was a classic example of shutting the barn long after the cows, goats, chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, horses, etc., have ...
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• A Disturbing Trend

  
  The Blog from Another Dimension — Authority: 132
  Sarah Palin , and not a comedic parody: Noting that there had been a lot of “change” of late, Palin recalled a recent conversation with a friend about how the phrase “In God We Trust” had been moved to the edge of the new coins. “Who calls a shot like that?” she demanded. “Who makes a decision like ...
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• He Can’t Handle the Truth

  
  From Pine View Farm — Authority: 144
  The truth doesn’t have enough truthiness . Without sufficient truthiness, Republicans cut and run: Listen all the way through to Ed’s comment at the end. Via James Wolcott .
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