0 belief in or support for government by elected representatives of the people, rather than government by a king or queen:
the sophisticated arguments of classical republicanism
In many respects, civic republicanism remains an underdeveloped political doctrine.
Not all variants of republicanism, in other words, required the people's direct participation in constitution making.
Republicanism, in the sense of antimonarchism, was a product of accident rather than design.
Republicanism is currently enjoying a resurgence of interest and support.
Projects begun in southern universities on revolutionary republicanism in the 1960s and 1970s were, in some instances, delayed for decades or abandoned altogether.
Nevertheless, this sample does suggest that the parallels ran even deeper, and that political and military republicanism appealed most strongly to the same social groups.