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republican

[ri-puhb-li-kuhn] / rɪˈpʌb lɪ kən /


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Brian Anderson, a Methodist minister with the East Belfast Mission, said the narrative that loyalist communities are losing out to those in republican areas is deeply ingrained.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

Mark Joseph Stern: This idea of republican virtue, lowercase r, civic virtue, the Framers were obsessed with it.

From Slate Aug. 17, 2026

Independence required Americans to believe in the risky project of devising a new, republican constitution.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Black Americans who fought to make the United States into a multiracial democracy insisted that states that denied Black Americans full voting rights were not republican governments.

From Slate Jun. 3, 2026

Anyone who favored a strong executive was vulnerable to the charge of being a quasi-monarchist, and therefore a traitor to the republican principles of the American Revolution.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

When asked about the potential of dissident republicans being involved in the attack, O'Dowd, who represents Upper Bann, said he did not see support for the groups.

From BBC Apr. 1, 2026

That leaves many Irish republicans in an unexpected position.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 13, 2026

And finding an elected President who could unite Scotland England Wales and Northern Ireland would, I suspect, be a good deal harder than some republicans think.

From BBC Nov. 30, 2025

Militant Irish republicans had been paying close attention to Carson’s tactics — which anticipated Mao Zedong’s maxim about the source of political power — and would eagerly emulate his example in the years ahead.

From Salon Oct. 19, 2024

The loyalists who left these States were not, it must be confessed, as good republicans as you are, but they loved liberty under their old forms, and their descendants love it too.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark




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