Republic

n.	1.
	1.	Common weal.
	2.	A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf. Democracy, 2. Republic of letters The collective body of literary or learned men.

Noun	1.	republic - a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them Synonyms: democracy, commonwealth
	2.	republic - a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; "the head of state in a republic is usually a president"

REPUBLIC. A commonwealth; that form of government in which the administration of affairs is open to all the citizens. In another sense, it signifies the state, independently of its form of government. 1 Toull. n. 28, and n. 202, note. In this sense, it is used by Ben Johnson. Those that, by their deeds make it known, whose dignity they do sustain; And life, state, glory, all they gain, Count the Republic's, not their own, Vide Body Politic; Nation; State.

absolute monarchy, ally, archduchy, archdukedom, aristocracy, autarchy, autocracy, autonomy, body politic, buffer state, captive nation, chieftaincy, chieftainry, city-state, coalition government, colonialism, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, country, county, democracy, dictatorship, domain, dominion, dominion rule, duarchy, duchy, dukedom, duumvirate, dyarchy, earldom, empery, empire, federal government, federation, feudal system, free city, garrison state, gerontocracy, grand duchy, heteronomy, hierarchy, hierocracy, home rule, kingdom, land, limited monarchy, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, martial law, meritocracy, militarism, military government, mob rule, mobocracy, monarchy, nation, nationality, neocolonialism, ochlocracy, oligarchy, pantisocracy, patriarchate, patriarchy, police state, polis, polity, possession, power, principality, principate, protectorate, province, puppet government, puppet regime, pure democracy, realm, regency, representative democracy, representative government, satellite, self-determination, self-government, seneschalty, settlement, social democracy, sovereign nation, state, stratocracy, sultanate, superpower, technocracy, territory, thearchy, theocracy, toparchia, toparchy, totalitarian government, totalitarian regime, triarchy, triumvirate, tyranny, welfare state