republican
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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
Independence required Americans to believe in the risky project of devising a new, republican constitution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Without equal citizenship, equal voting rights, and equal opportunity to elect representatives of one’s choice, republican government was an impossibility.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 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
That leaves many Irish republicans in an unexpected position.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
Maskey described his gesture as a "major step for republicans and nationalists on this island".
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024
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
When the King and Queen fly into Sydney on Friday, they will be greeted by one of Australia's most prominent republicans, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2024
In all matters of the locality republicans and democrats count alike.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
Vocabulary lists containing republican
Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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Chapter 3, Sections 1–2
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