Nevertheless, in 1861, Lincoln justified the war in terms of legalisms ( the Constitution was a contract, and for one party to get out of a contract all the other parties had to agree ), and then in terms of the national duty to guarantee a republican form of government in every state.

Chapters 17 to 27 describe the missionary labors of the sons of King Mosiah II who was the last king over the people of Nephi prior to the peaceful transition of the nation from a monarchy to a republican form of government.

While democracy is often equated with the republican form of government, the term " republic " classically has encompassed both democracies and aristocracies.

That constitution delineates mechanisms for amending it, but it also declares eight articles immutable and unalterable and not subject to change, which include a guarantees of a republican form of government, and an explicit prohibition against presidential candidacy of anyone who has been president previously at any time or for any reason.

In a republican form of government, the representatives are chosen by the people and share with them adherence to the fundamental principles and political institutions of the polity.

The republican theory is that the goal and aim of the Long Parliament was to institute a constitutional, balanced, and equally representative form of government along similar lines as were later accomplished in America by the American Revolution.

They had decided on a republican form of government with two consuls in place of a king executing the will of a patrician senate.

The constituent states of the federation must also have a republican form of government based on a congressional system as established by their respective constitutions.

Concerning the differences and similarities in Machiavelli's advice to ruthless and tyrannical princes in The Prince and his more republican exhortations in Discourses on Livy, many have concluded that The Prince although written in the form of advice for a monarchical prince, contains arguments for the superiority of republican regimes, similar to those found in the Discourses.

* Federal republic, a federation of states with a republican form of government

The politics of Puerto Rico take place in the framework of a republican democratic form of government that is under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United States of America as an organized unincorporated territory.

As a republican form of government, the government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is divided into three branches: executive, legislative and judicial, as established by the Constitution of Puerto Rico.

* Luther v. Borden, – Guarantee of a republican form of government is a political question to be resolved by the President and the Congress ;

The Swiss were victorious, and the Swiss Confederacy was proclaimed, and Switzerland has retained a republican form of government to the present.

In England James Harrington, Algernon Sydney, and John Milton became some of the first writers to argue for rejecting monarchy and embracing a republican form of government.

* Federal republic — a federal union of states or provinces with a republican form of government.

States of the United States are required, like the federal government, to be republican in form, with final authority resting with the people.

In the example of the United States, the original 13 British colonies became independent states after the American Revolution, each having a republican form of government.

However, the term republic is not synonymous with the republican form.

The republican form is defined as one in which the powers of sovereignty are vested in the people and are exercised by the people, either directly, or through representatives chosen by the people, to whom those powers are specially delegated.

Cicero expressed reservations concerning the republican form of government.

All agreed to a republican form of government grounded in representing the people in the states.

Concerns that defamation under common law might be incompatible with the new republican form of government caused early American courts to struggle between William Blackstone's argument that the punishment of " dangerous or offensive writings ... necessary for the preservation of peace and good order, of government and religion, the only solid foundations of civil liberty " and the argument that the need for a free press guaranteed by the Constitution outweighed the fear of what might be written.

Liberal in its use of statistics to make its arguments, the book argued his view that the American republican system of government was superior to the British monarchical system.

Yuan death in 1916 left a power vacuum in China ; the republican government was all but shattered.

On the death of Oliver Cromwell in 1658, his son, Richard Cromwell, inherited the title Lord Protector, but internal divisions among the republican party lead to his resignation, the end of the Protectorate and a second period of Commonwealth government by a Council of State and Parliament.

Hopes for the Enlightenment, human rights, republican government, democracy, and freedom after Napoleon I's defeat in 1815 were dashed, however, when the Congress of Vienna reinstated many monarchies.

It is uncertain why he did this, as there were many more opportunities for him under the King than the new order ; some people suggest David's love for the classical made him embrace everything about that period, including a republican government.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

" The name " Olympique " was originally proposed but changed to Franciade to commemorate the fact that it had taken the revolution four years to establish a republican government in France.

With his exile in 1494, the first period of Medici rule ended with the restoration of a republican government.

In the 15th century, an oligarchic republican government emerged with the creation of the Grand Council.

George Washington, the first President of the United States, set the precedent for an executive head of state in republican systems of government.

The republican government also enforced the Système International d ' Unités ( International System of Units ), commissioned by Louis XVI, which became known as the Metric System.

* 1848 – In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government.

The republican machinery had broken down under the weight of imperialism, the central government had become powerless, the provinces had been transformed into independent principalities under the absolute control of their governors, and the army had replaced the constitution as the means of accomplishing political goals.

The kind of republican government of which Rousseau approved was that of the city state, of which Geneva was a model, or would have been, if renewed on Rousseau's principles.

Although the veracity of these allegations is disputed, the Belgian Ministry of Justice accused him of it, subsequently arresting him, and he was forced to flee back to France, where, with a new republican government in power, he believed that he would be safe.

Stephen A. Douglas -- " The great principle of self government is at stake, and surely the people of this country are never going to decide that the principle upon which our whole republican system rests is vicious and wrong.

Like many other families, the Albertis had been expelled from their native city, Florence, by the republican government, run by the Albizzis.

In Henry Vane's case the House of Lords were desirous of having him specifically excepted, so as to leave him at the mercy of the government and thus restrain him from the exercise of his great talents in promoting his favourite republican principles at any time during the remainder of his life.