Commonwealth vs. Republic

Commonwealthnoun

The well-being of a community.

Commonwealthnoun

The entirety of a (secular) society, a polity, a state.

Commonwealthnoun

Republic. Often capitalized, as Commonwealth.

Commonwealthnoun

A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws.

Commonwealthnoun

The whole body of people in a state; the public.

Commonwealthnoun

Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659.

Commonwealthnoun

the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)

Commonwealthnoun

a politically organized body of people under a single government;

Commonwealthnoun

a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another

Commonwealthnoun

a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

Commonwealth

A commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. Historically it has sometimes been synonymous with .

Republicnoun

A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy.

Republicnoun

(archaic) A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branches of government are separate.

Republicnoun

One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.

Republicnoun

Common weal.

Republicnoun

A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf. Democracy, 2.

Republicnoun

a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

Republicnoun

a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch;

Republicnoun

a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.

Republicnoun

a group with a certain equality between its members

Republic

A republic (Latin: res publica, meaning ) is a form of government in which . In republics, the country is considered a , not the private concern or property of the rulers.