0 a country without a king or queen, usually governed by elected representatives of the people and a president -- （通常指由選舉産生的人民代表和總統治理的）共和國，共和政體
the People's Republic of China 中華人民共和國
These were usually (though not always) subordinate to a 'territory', which was in turn subordinate to a union republic.
We are bound to the republic with such essential and sacred bonds that we could not break them without destroying our own moral character.
The final section provides individual profiles of the current health care system in each of the five republics.
Therefore, when republics increase in size, the proportion of representatives to constituents must decrease.
Neither nationalism nor social unrest rocked the provisional republic.
But then where would be your democratic republic from top to bottom and from centre to circumference?
The republic was finally restored in 1867 and power was returned to congress.
The gap between empire and republic was too wide, and the idea was too new to the large and scattered illiterate population.
