Republic vs. Monarchy

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.

Monarchynoun

A government in which sovereignty is embodied within a single, today usually hereditary head of state (whether as a figurehead or as a powerful ruler).

Monarchynoun

The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.

Monarchynoun

A form of government where sovereignty is embodied by a single ruler in a state and his high aristocracy representing their separate divided lands within the state and their low aristocracy representing their separate divided fiefs.

Monarchynoun

A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch.

Monarchynoun

A system of government in which the chief ruler is a monarch.

Monarchynoun

The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.

Monarchynoun

an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority

Monarchy

A monarchy is a form of government in which a person, the monarch, is head of state for life or until abdication. The political legitimacy and authority of the monarch may vary from restricted and largely symbolic (constitutional monarchy), to fully autocratic (absolute monarchy), and can expand across the domains of the executive, legislative, and judicial.