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- noun Obsolete spelling of
republic .
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Neither monarchy nor aristocracy would have fitted the case, and the word republick itself would have been exposed to uncertainties, with which the word state is not chargeable; because it has been applied to governments discordant with those which were established by our revolution.
Archive 2008-05-18 papabear 2008
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Ames, however, made a preemptive strike, cleverly portraying the “so much condemned” Senate as a critical component of the “federal republick” created by the Constitution, an institution that assured the continued existence of states and served as a barrier to “consolidation.”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Ames, however, made a preemptive strike, cleverly portraying the “so much condemned” Senate as a critical component of the “federal republick” created by the Constitution, an institution that assured the continued existence of states and served as a barrier to “consolidation.”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Ames, however, made a preemptive strike, cleverly portraying the “so much condemned” Senate as a critical component of the “federal republick” created by the Constitution, an institution that assured the continued existence of states and served as a barrier to “consolidation.”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Johnson thus expounds it, and adds, that it implies a republick, or a government not monarchical.
Archive 2008-05-18 papabear 2008
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‘Sir, (said he,) you are for making a monarchy of what should be a republick.’
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In the republick of Sparta, it was agreed, that stealing was not dishonourable, if not discovered.
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They do, Sire, replied the minister, and have the highest sense of the honour your majesty has done them — but the republick, as godmother, claims her right, in this case, of naming the child.
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And what name has the republick fixed upon for the
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And what name has the republick fixed upon for the
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