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republicanism

[ US /ɹɪˈpəbɫɪkəˌnɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪpˈʌblɪkənˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. the political orientation of those who hold that a republic is the best form of government

How To Use republicanism In A Sentence

  • He won power in an election that year and consolidated his position in an imperial coup of 1851 after which his government arrested agitators to deport them and he became a hated despot, the enemy of republicanism.
  • Modern republicanism doesn't go this far, for it is wedded to the ideal of "civil society". After Thatcher
  • This vision of cooperative self-government often produced republicanism and even democracy comparable to classical Greek democracy.
  • He ran against this theory of a moderate Republicanism that is complicit in a long liberal legacy of tax, spend, and tax again.
  • Republicanism, neo-conservatism, and tea-partyism do,however, seem to make natural bed fellows, and their love affair with Mr Smith seems to imply, ‘guilt by association’. The Evolution of Everything - The Panda's Thumb
  • In latter years, he made a career out of his antipathy to republicanism and became a maestro of the sound bite.
  • Throughout Europe, republicanism and republican forms of government have been associated with the emergence of strong business classes.
  • This may have arisen from the fact that Paine's doctrine was much more plain and intelligible to the common people: it was operatical and proposed immediate excision; that is, it advocated the total overthrow of monarchy, and the establishment of republicanism. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
  • In Renaissance republicanism, as well as in Greek democratic thought, a citizen was someone who participated in 'giving judgement and holding office'.
  • He was very much the acceptable face of militant republicanism.
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