Concept
Republic
Overview
form of government where the head of state is elected
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In the original texts
Passages from public-domain books where Republic is discussed.
As often, on the contrary, as the allied royalists come into conflict with the Pretender who stands before them—with Bonaparte—as often as they believe their parliamentary omnipotence to be endangered by the Executive, in other words, as often as they must trot out the political title of their authority, they step up as _Republicans_, not as _Royalists_—and this is done from the Orleanist Thiers, who warns the…
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
names the idea; states what it is; opens on it
The legislator occupies in every respect an extraordinary position in the State. If he should do so by reason of his genius, he does so no less by reason of his office, which is neither magistracy, nor Sovereignty. This office, which sets up the Republic, nowhere enters into its constitution; it is an individual and superior function, which has nothing in common with human empire; for if he who holds command over…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The social contract & discourses
names the idea; author linked in the graph
The mode of election which has been described is in a mean between monarchy and democracy, and such a mean the state ought always to observe; for servants and masters never can be friends, nor good and bad, merely because they are declared to have equal privileges. For to unequals equals become unequal, if they are not harmonised by measure; and both by reason of equality, and by reason of inequality, cities are…
Plato, Laws
states what it is; author linked in the graph
And the senate thinks that it will be for the general interests of the republic that the provinces which are at present occupied by Decimus Brutus and by Lucius Plancus, both imperators, and consuls elect, and also by the officers who are in command of provinces, shall continue to be held by them in accordance with the provisions of the Julian law, until each of these officers has a successor appointed by a…
Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
names the idea; opens on it
The power of the city of Paris is evidently one great spring of all their politics. It is through the power of Paris, now become the centre and focus of jobbing, that the leaders of this faction direct, or rather command, the whole legislative and the whole executive government. Everything therefore must be done which can confirm the authority of that city over the other republics. Paris is compact; she has an…
Edmund Burke, Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
names the idea; states what it is; opens on it
Philosophers who discussed Republic
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Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.